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Automata

Author : Christian Bailly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automata written by Christian Bailly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now reissued, having been unobtainable for many years, this spectacular book, the first to be devoted entirely to the period of the automaton's apogee, is an essential addition to the library of the collector, the specialist, and all who are interested in automata. An introductory chapter depicts the Paris in which automaton-makers lived and worked, its atmosphere, preoccupations and amusements. There follow the little-known histories of the seven leading makers, from their foundation in the mid-century to the decline of production after the First World War. This information is the result of the author's pioneering researches into commercial archives, the contemporary press, and personal documents of automaton-makers' descendants. Here for the first time names, dates and chronologies are accurately established to give a reference framework of inestimable value. In the automaton - happy product of the exuberant creativity of the artist and the exquisite craftsmanship of the artisan - sculpture, painting, music, costume and mechanics all play a part. The automata of nineteenth-century France embody their age in a wonderfully immediate fashion. alive: in homely figures such as the rosy-cheeked nanny walking the baby, or the pretty seamstress at pains over her work; in ingenious larger-than-life creations - lustily acrobatic clowns, mystifying conjurors, melancholy Pierrots, Mephistopheles himself; and still other pieces express the era of great international exhibitions and colonial conquests, and its fascination with the exotic. Over 150 automata are illustrated in colour photographs; and a substantial selection of pages from catalogues of the period in facsimile show many further pieces in monochrome.

Victorian Automata

Author : Suzy Anger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100911848X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Automata written by Suzy Anger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam

Author : Angela Vanhaelen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091916
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam written by Angela Vanhaelen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive displays of moving mechanical figures (automata) and a famed set of waxwork portraits of the rulers of Protestant Europe. Publicized as the most innovative artworks on display in Amsterdam, the doolhoven exhibits presented the mercantile city as a global center of artistic and technological advancement. This evocative tour through the doolhoven pub gardens—where drinking, entertainment, and the acquisition of knowledge mingled in encounters with lively displays of animated artifacts—shows that the exhibits had a forceful and transformative impact on visitors, one that moved them toward Protestant reform. Deeply researched and decidedly original, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam uncovers a wealth of information about these nearly forgotten public pleasure parks, situating them within popular culture, religious controversies, global trade relations, and intellectual debates of the seventeenth century. It will appeal in particular to scholars in art history and early modern studies.

Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence

Author : Kay Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031492269
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence written by Kay Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Shaw was born in the golden age of the automaton. His Bible on the Life Force and Creative Evolution, Back to Methuselah, was written when Karel and Josef Čapek coined the word “robot.” Shaw’s life ran in parallel with the rise of AI, and the big names in AI were his contemporaries. Moreover, empirical analyses of Shavian texts and images using AI uncovers possibilities for new interpretations, demonstrating how future renditions of his works may make use of these advanced technologies to broaden Shaw’s audience, readership and scholarship.

Medieval Robots

Author : E. R. Truitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246977
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Robots written by E. R. Truitt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.

Figures in the Fourth Dimension

Author : Ellen Rixford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578158655
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Figures in the Fourth Dimension written by Ellen Rixford and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romantic Automata

Author : Michael Demson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684481783
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Automata written by Michael Demson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical imitations of life. Recent scholarship in post-humanism, post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism, eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant organic life. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Trouble with Gundogs

Author : Margaret Allen
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719842808
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Gundogs written by Margaret Allen and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trouble with Gundogs takes a new look at the causes and cures for the many faults that can crop up in the process of training a Gundog. Dogs and humans have lived, worked and played together for thousands of years and strong bonds have formed between them. With luck and care, the training, management and handling of a Gundog will progress without a hitch. The luck begins with natural talent on both sides and the care ensures that correct choices are made and good sense prevails. However, things can still go wrong. This book offers solutions to the problems that may occur along the way. There are hundreds of different types of dog and each one has its own character. Because of this, one size does not fit all when tackling a problem, and different approaches are offered. Observation, determination and perseverance will usually be rewarded.

If I Knew Then What I Know Now...

Author : Gavin Spickett
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719842921
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book If I Knew Then What I Know Now... written by Gavin Spickett and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From park run to ultras, this book gives you the support and encouragement you need to start – and keep you – running injury-free This thorough handbook gives detailed practical advice to all adult runners. It covers everything you need to embark on a running career, but goes further and explains training needs and regimes to established runners. Written in an accessible easy style, it answers all your questions – before you've thought of them – and encourages everyone to get fit and enjoy your running safely.

Robots

Author : David E. Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Robots written by David E. Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots: A Reference Handbook differs from most other books on robotics in the variety of resources that it provides to readers of all ages. Robots: A Reference Handbook teaches readers about a wide variety of robots. It opens with a history of robotics, dating to ancient Greece and Rome, at which time an impressive array of automata were invented for entertainment, religious, and instructional purposes. It follows the development of automata and robots in ancient China and the Islamic world, through to Western Civilization in the present day. Subsequent chapters describe the wide array of applications to which robots are put today and discuss the technical, social, political, ethical, and economic issues created by their increasing use. Additionally, a number of essays by interested individuals highlight various aspects of robotics development. The remaining chapters of the book provide resources that will assist readers in learning more about the topic of robotics.

Sublime Dreams of Living Machines

Author : Minsoo Kang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674049357
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. --

Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

Author : K. Reilly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230347541
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History written by K. Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.

Miracles and Machines

Author : Elizabeth King
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606068393
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Miracles and Machines written by Elizabeth King and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Robotics Demystified

Author : Edwin Wise
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071487867
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Robotics Demystified written by Edwin Wise and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects McGraw-Hill's Demystified titles are the most efficient, interestingly written, brush-ups you can find. Organized as self-teaching guides, they come complete with key points, background information, questions at the end of each chapter, and even final exams. You'll be able to learn more in less time, evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, and reinforce your knowledge and confidence. This complete self-teaching guide takes an introductory approach to robotics, guiding readers through the essential electronics, mechanics, and programming skills necessary to build their own robot.

1001 Inventions

Author : Salim T. S. Al-Hassani
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426209347
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book 1001 Inventions written by Salim T. S. Al-Hassani and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were pioneered during the Golden Age of Muslim civilization between the 7th and 17th centuries. Every time you drink coffee, eat a three-course meal, get a whiff of your favorite perfume, take shelter in an earthquake-resistant structure, get a broken bone set or solve an algebra problem, it is in part due to the discoveries of Muslim civilization.

From the Golden Age of Automata

Author : Florence Theriault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931503235
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book From the Golden Age of Automata written by Florence Theriault and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Florence Theriault. An extraordinary new book features 150 exceptional automata from the private collection of the noted Parisian connoisseur. Numerous color photographs and perspectives are offered of each work, along with a DVD exhibiting actual automata in movement and commentary by Christian Bailly.

Secrets of Automata

Author : Michael Start
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719843065
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Automata written by Michael Start and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book reveals the secrets of automata mechanisms, which were developed over generations by makers who closely guarded their designs in the competitive business of automata making. Written by a specialist restorer, it gives a unique appreciation of the internal mechanisms that allow an automaton to move as if alive. Organised into popular subjects that are explored in entertaining detail, this book is a rich resource for makers, artists, restorers and collectors alike, as well as those who simply find themselves asking the question 'How does it do that?' Secrets of Automata is the culmination of its author's career-long fascination with automata mechanisms. Michael Start specialises in restoring clockwork figures and singing birds produced in Paris during the 19th century. It is no accident that this time and place became known as the 'golden age' of automata; the craftsmen of Paris competed with each other to capture a share of a growing global market for mechanical wonders. The various methods of portraying mechanical life using complex mechanisms and clever design were rarely recorded or publicised - but they are there, sealed within the automata themselves. As a restorer, Michael is unique in being able to provide a written exposé of the historical techniques of the lifelike movement. In Secrets of Automata, it is his great pleasure to share them with you.