Automata
Subtitle: a brief history of the automata from ancient times to the Fée Ondine
By: texts by Nicholas Foulkes
Publisher: XAVIER BARRAL; Editions Xavier Barral
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9782365111348
Subjects: Robots; History
Description: 290 pages : 29 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Workshop --; title: Preamble --; title: Matins --; title: Cosmogony --; title: Forces --; title: Movement --; title: Laudes --; title: Celestial Mechanics --; title: Alive --; title: Luminary --; title: Prime --; title: Theatre of Instruments --; title: Curiosities --; title: Terce --; title: The Human Machine --; title: Philosophy --; title: Sext --; title: Objects of Research --; title: Mechanics --; title: None --; title: Idols and Simulacra --; title: Time --; title: Vespers --; title: Twilight of the Fantastic --; title: Miniatures --; title: Demiurge --; title: Compline --; title: Era of Wonders --; title: Fictions --; title: Geins.