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Animating Empire : Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World /
"Recounts the histories of German clockwork automata, which were given as gifts and collected in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Early modern automata : an abridged history
- Ever more variations on theme at the court of Rudolf II
- The gifts that keep on giving
- A figure of speech
- Hapsburg-Ottoman diplomatic machinery
- Metamorphosis at the Mughal court
- Conclusion.