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Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Truitt, Elly Rachel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Robots > History > To 1500.
Automata > History > To 1500.
Mechanical toys > History > To 1500.
Mechanical engineering > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Nature and civilization > History > To 1500.
Magic > History > To 1500.
Imagination > History > To 1500.
Table of 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.