Chapter ID: CBB000774500

Eighteenth-Century Wetware (2007)

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Riskin, Jessica G. (Author)


Pages: 239-274
Publication date: 2007
Language: English


Description Concerns automata and mechanical simulation of living organisms.


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Book Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Newman, William R. (2007) The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kang, Minsoo
Ambrosetti, Nadia
Aytes, Ayhan
Berryman, Sylvia A.
Castañeda, Claudia
Grafton, Anthony T.
Journals
History and Technology
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Social Studies of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Chronos Verlag
Deutscher Kunstverlag
Harvard University Press
Princeton University Press
Routledge
Rutgers University Press
Concepts
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Artificial life
Machines
Technology
Artificial intelligence
Technology and culture
People
Astley, Philip
Breslaw, Henry
Cox, James
Fontana, Giovanni
Haraway, Donna Jeanne
Kempelen, Wolfgang von
Time Periods
18th century
21st century
Ancient
Early modern
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Europe
Greece
India
China
London (England)
Dresden (Germany)
Institutions
Staatlicher Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Dresden, Germany)
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