单词	mechanist
释义	mechanist /ˈmɛk(ə)nɪst / noun 1 Philosophy A person who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.Although, unlike most of his fashionable contemporaries and immediate successors, Descartes was not an atomist, he was, like the others, a mechanist about the properties of matter.... For Descartes, and other mechanists who followed after him, the healthy body was nothing more than a well-functioning machine, soulless and subject to chemical and mechanical remedies. But in the second half of the century both neoplatonists and mechanists usually promoted more practical projects. 2 archaic A person skilled in the design or construction of machinery.Huygens was the greatest mechanist of the seventeenth century.
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