Miracles and Machines (eBook, PDF)

A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend

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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 the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to legend connected t...

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