[PDF.61zb] Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination

Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination

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 | #1660708 in Books |  2011-02-28 |  2011-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.41 x1.20 x6.47l,1.53 | File type: PDF | 386 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great Book, But Don't Buy for the Kindle!|By Maggie Delgado|OK, I'm only a quarter of the way through the book, so I can't be certain that it is all as interesting and informative as the first couple of chapters.

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BUT THE KINDLE EDITION HAS NO IMAGES!! NO GRAPHS, AND ONLY SOME OF THE CHARTS. Which really does limit the book's us| |In this broadly synthetic work of outstanding acuity, Kang takes the reader on a fascinating journey through various episodes in European intellectual history, from ancient Greek, medieval, and Renaissance magic and mechanics, early modern mechanistic philosop

From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton―better known today as the robot―has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity.

Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination   |  Minsoo Kang. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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