Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / E.R. Truitt.

  • Truitt, Elly Rachel
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Physical description

x, 255 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239) and index.

Contents

Introduction. The persistence of robots: an archaeology of automata -- Rare devices: geography and technology -- Between art and nature: Natura artifex, neoplatonism, and literary 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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    History of Medicine
    AFD.AA2
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ISBN

  • 9780812246971
  • 0812246977
  • 0812223578
  • 9780812223576