Automata : a brief history of the automata from ancient times to the Fée Ondine

Foulkes, Nick, author.

2017, Book , 290 pages :

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- Robots--History.

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Publication information:	Paris : Éditions Xavier Barral, [2017]
ISBN:	2365111343
ISBN:	9782365111348
Language:	English
Record ID:	3617329
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Date acquired:	January 5, 2018
More creator details:	texts by Nicholas Foulkes.
Contents note:	Workshop -- Preamble -- Matins -- Cosmogony -- Forces -- Movement -- Laudes -- Celestial Mechanics -- Alive -- Luminary -- Prime -- Theatre of Instruments -- Curiosities -- Terce -- The Human Machine -- Philosophy -- Sext -- Objects of Research -- Mechanics -- None -- Idols and Simulacra -- Time -- Vespers -- Twilight of the Fantastic -- Miniatures -- Demiurge -- Compline -- Era of Wonders -- Fictions -- Geins.

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