Androids in the Enlightenment

Author: Adelheid Voskuhl
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 022603402X

Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Download Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these "Enlightenment automata" have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized.AIn Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata-both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only pl Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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