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Copying machines : taking notes for the automaton /

In readings of texts by Lafayette, Molire, Laclos, and La Bruyreand in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques VaucansonCatherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien rgime France a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Liu, Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
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