Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / E.R. Truitt.

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct wh...

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Main Author: Truitt, Elly Rachel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Middle Ages series.
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Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / by Truitt, Elly Rachel

Published 2015
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