Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / E.R. Truitt.

• Introduction. The persistence of robots: an archaeology of automata -- Rare devices: geography and technology -- Between art and nature: Natura artifex, neoplatonism, and literary automata -- Talking heads: astral science, divination, and legends of medieval philosophers -- The quick and the dead: corpses, memorial statues, and automata -- From texts to technology: mechanical marvels in courtly and public pageantry -- The clockwork universe: keeping sacred and secular time.

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Civilization, Medieval.  (LCSH)

Robots  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Automata  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Mechanical toys  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Mechanical engineering  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Nature and civilization  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Magic  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Imagination  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Robotar  -- historia (sao)

Mekaniska leksaker  -- historia (sao)

Maskinteknik  -- historia (sao)

Magi  -- historia (sao)

Fantasi  -- historia (sao)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Pbad Maskinelement: servomekanismer (automation)

Klassifikation

TJ211 (LCC)

629.8 (DDC)

Pbad:k (kssb/8)