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Autore principale: | King, Elizabeth.
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Titolo: | Miracles and machines : a sixteenth-century automaton and its legend / Elizabeth King and W. David Todd. |
Pubblicazione: | Los Angeles : Getty publications, c2023. |
Descrizione fisica: | 246 p. : ill., ritr. ; 26 cm |
Contiene: | Indice: Introduction. Pt. 1. A legend: 1. To set the stage 2. A miracle and a vow 3. Diego de Alcalá 4. An automation by Juanelo Turriano 5. The attribution of the monk 6. A letter 7. A monk's opinion. Pt. 2. The monk: 8. An immaculate object 9. The monk performs 10. A mechanical anatomy. Pt. 3. Eight androids: 11. Monks, saints, and musical ladies 12. A second monk? 13. A saint in Budapest 14. Three sister musicians 15. The Vienna cittern player 16. A late arrival from Milan 17. The category challenge 18. The earliest free-walking androids. Pt. 4. A search for origins: 19. Craft guild or imperial court? 20. Two masters, two cultures: Jakob Bulmann and Juanelo Turriano 21. A Nuremberg clockmaker's workshop 22. The art cabinet of Rudolf II 23. Searching the lost and found 24. A monk's opinion, continued. Pt. 5. A machine that prays: 25. Miracles and walking sculptures 26. Perpetual devotion 27. The machine and the corpse. Appendix: Table of comparisons : eight automata. Notes. Select bibliography. Acknowledgments. About the authors. Illustration credits. Index |
ISBN: | 9781606068397 |
Altri autori: | Todd, David W., (coautore.) |
Discipline: | Religione e scienza--Studi. Ingegneria delle macchine--Studi. |
Sudd. cronologiche: | Rinascimento. |
Collocazione: | LS 23283 |
Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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