Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art /

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A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct wh...

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Autor principal: Truitt, Elly Rachel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Robots.
Nature and civilization.
Mechanical toys.
Mechanical engineering.
Magic.
Machine theory.
Imagination.
Civilization, Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Civilisation medievale.
Robots > History > To 1500.
Machine theory > History > To 1500.
Mechanical toys > History > To 1500.
Mechanical engineering > History > To 1500.
Nature and civilization > History > To 1500.
Magic > History > To 1500.
Imagination > History > To 1500.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the persistence of robots : an archaeology of automata
  • Rare devices : geography and technology
  • Between art and nature : Natura artifex, neoplatonism, and litrary automata
  • Talking heads : astral science, divination, and legends of medieval philosophers
  • The quick and the dead : corpses, memorial statues, and automata
  • From texts to technology : mechanical marvels in courtly and public pageantry
  • The clockwork universe : keeping sacred and secular time.

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