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Androids in the Enlightenment
Adelheid Voskuhl
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Description for Androids in the Enlightenment
hardcover. The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1785 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. This title investigates two such automata depicting piano-playing women. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JF; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1785 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. 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. In "Androids in the Enlightenment", Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata - both ... Read more
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1785 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. 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. In "Androids in the Enlightenment", Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata - both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226034027
SKU
KSK0000428
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About Adelheid Voskuhl
Adelheid Voskuhl is associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Reviews for Androids in the Enlightenment
"This deeply researched study restores Enlightenment automata to their original context of princely courts, protoindustrial craftsmanship, and bourgeois sentiment - and explains how automata later came to stand for industrial machinery, mechanical theories of organic life, and fatally accurate simulacra of human beings in the philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adelheid Voskuhl's panoramic study is a ... Read more