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Animating empire : automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the early modern world / Jessica Keating.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keating, Jessica, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robots in art.
- Robots--Holy Roman Empire--History--16th century.
- Robots.
- Robots--Holy Roman Empire--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Recounts the histories of German clockwork automata, which were given as gifts and collected in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Early modern automata : an abridged history
- Ever more variations on theme at the court of Rudolf II
- The gifts that keep on giving
- A figure of speech
- Hapsburg-Ottoman diplomatic machinery
- Metamorphosis at the Mughal court
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-164) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271081496
- 027108149X
- 9780271081519
- 0271081511
- OCLC:
- 1035947381
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