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Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art (The Middle Ages Series)

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 | #831031 in Books |  2016-11-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.70 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Helpful and thorough historical analysis of medieval robots.|By Dr Lindsay Gerard Sharp|In summary the author, a long standing expert in this subject, provides a thorough, thoughtful and helpful historical analysis of Medieval Robots until the mid-to-end C 15. There is a relatively small gap thereafter until the advent of automata in Italy and France in the C. 16 which remains| ||"Engagingly written and thoughtfully researched, Medieval Robots will be of value to specialists in the intellectual and literary history of the Middle Ages, as well as to more general readers. . . . Truitt's suggestive and nuanced account both firmly

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabricat...

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