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

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Objectstaat
Nieuw: Een nieuw, ongelezen en ongebruikt boek in perfecte staat waarin geen bladzijden ontbreken of ...
ISBN-13
9781606068397
Type
Does not apply
ISBN
9781606068397
Book Title
Miracles and Machines : a Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
Publisher
Getty Publications
Item Length
10.2 in
Publication Year
2023
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
W. David Todd, Elizabeth King
Genre
Art, Technology & Engineering
Topic
Conservation & Preservation, Robotics, History / Renaissance
Item Weight
46.1 Oz
Item Width
8.3 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Publisher
Getty Publications
ISBN-10
1606068393
ISBN-13
9781606068397
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7058379229

Product Key Features

Book Title
Miracles and Machines : a Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Conservation & Preservation, Robotics, History / Renaissance
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Technology & Engineering
Author
W. David Todd, Elizabeth King
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
46.1 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
8.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-001741
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
By combining the expertise of the art studio and the horological workshop, and aided by the detailed photographs of Rosamond Purcell, the authors bring the automaton to life., As demonstrated by this marvellous book, the monk automaton is testament to human ingenuity, craftsmanship and our enduring capacity for wonder., Now that I have read this book, I understand far more completely the significance of these magical artificial beings, today more than four and a half centuries old.
Dewey Decimal
629.892
Synopsis
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 the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, is among the earliest ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to a legend connected to the court of Philip II of Spain, it represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain's crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In researching the monk's origins and legends, Elizabeth King, a sculptor, and W. David Todd, a clockmaker and conservator of historical clocks, visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. This enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come., 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 the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to legend connected to the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain's crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend, the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue, form a paradigmatic class of walking "prime movers," unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come., 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.
LC Classification Number
NK3649.K56 2023
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