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Miracles and Machines : A Sixteenth-Cent
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Item specifics
- Condition
- 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
- 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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Product Identifiers
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
Topic
Conservation & Preservation, Robotics, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Technology & Engineering
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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