Генезис феномену «перпетуум мобіле»
The genesis of the phenomenon of «рerpetuum mobile»

Summary/Abstract: «Perpetuum mobile» has numerous incarnations in the art human culture throughout its development. This research focuses on the genesis of «perpetual mobile», it features in the art, music and other kinds of creativity with the accent on «Rerpetuum mobile naturae» (natural perpetual motion) and « та «рerpetuum mobile artificae» (artificial perpetual motion). Methodology. The research methodology includes comparative cultural-historical method, which allows us to analyse the emergence of PM symbol. Based on the comparative method, the scientific, technical, artistic and imaginative connotations in philosophy, science, art and music are considered. Scientific novelty. The PM phenomenon in the music theory study has not been constant and general. There was no attempt to systematise PM’s imaginative connotations and compare them to other embodiments of the PM in the sciences and techniques. Therefore, the scientific novelty is to identify the cross-cutting links among PM’s different incarnations and to analyse the development and interaction of diverse samples of this phenomenon transhistorically. Conclusions. Based on the PM genesis study, the author underlines the cohesion and cross-cutting nature of this symbol, which gets different forms in various branches of technical and artistic creativity. It is manifested primarily in the incarnation of common shapes (circle, spiral), and identifies the general trend of scientific, technical and artistic-figurative connotations that give an ability to deeper understanding of the PM’s role in general development of the European culture in XIX-XXI centuries.

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