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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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International Music and Drama
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
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Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Miracles and Machines
Author: Elizabeth King
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606068407
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606068407
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Les Congrés et colloques de l'Université de Liège
Author: Université de Liège
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Antiquarian Bookman
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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