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Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend

Contributor(s): King, Elizabeth (Author), David Todd, W (Author), Purcell, Rosamond (Photographer)

ISBN: 9781606068397

Publisher: Getty Publications

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Pub Date: August 15, 2023

Dewey: 629.892

LCCN: 2023001741

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.05" H x 10.29" L x 8.27" W ( 2.89 lbs) 256 pages

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Description: An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays.

Review Quotes: "Now that I have read this book, I understand far more completely the significance of these magical artificial beings, today more than four and a half centuries old."--Bob Frishman "Maine Antique Digest" (9/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)

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