Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend

by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd

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An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays.

This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as "the monk." The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1606068393

ISBN13:9781606068397

Release Date:August 2023

Publisher:Getty Publications

Length:256 Pages

Weight:2.89 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 8.3" x 10.3"

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