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

ISBN: 1606068393

ISBN13: 9781606068397

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

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...

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