Book ID: CBB001023105

Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination (2011)

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Kang, Minsoo (Author)


Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2011
Language: English


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 374 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

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Review Truitt, E. R. (2012) Review of "Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 199). unapi

Review Keating, Jessica (2012) Review of "Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 385-386). unapi

Review Fara, Patricia (2012) Review of "Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination". American Historical Review (pp. 1651-1652). unapi

Review Luckhurst, Roger (2012) Review of "Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination". Science-Fiction Studies (p. 135). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Arnoux, Mathieu
Aytes, Ayhan
Bellissima, Fabio
Cohen, H. Floris
Erkoreka, Anton
Filippini, Nadia Maria
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Technology and Culture
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
de Gruyter
Guaraldi
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Machines
Human-machine interaction
Artificial intelligence
Cross-cultural comparison
Science, general histories
People
Descartes, René
Kempelen, Wolfgang von
Archimedes
Babbage, Charles
Einstein, Albert
Enriques, Federigo
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Medieval
Ancient
Renaissance
18th century
Places
Europe
China
Israel
France
Greece
Italy
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