http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#mettrie 18th century French doctor and materialist, most notorious for his tract <cite>Man a Machine</cite> (<cite>L'Homme machine</cite>), which I've <a href="../LaMettrie/Machine/">put on-line</a>. A curious character... <P>For more, see <a href="../LaMettrie/bibliography.html">A Few Books on La Mettrie</a>.