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Inanimate reason : or a circumstantial account of that astonishing piece of mechanism, M. de Kempelen's Chess-Player; now exhibiting at No. 8, Savile-Row, Burlington-Gardens; illustrated with three copper-plates, Exhibiting this celebrated Automation, in different Points of View. Translated from the original Letters of M. Charles Gottlieb de Windisch.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Windisch, Karl Gottlieb, 1725-1793.
Standardized Title:
Briefe über den Schachspieler des Hrn. von Kempelen. English
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chess--Miscellanea.
Chess.
Automaton chess players.
Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804.
Kempelen, Wolfgang von.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([3],vi-58p.,plate )
Other Title:
Inanimate reason
Place of Publication:
London : printed for S. Bladon, No. 13, Pater-Noster-Row, 1784.
Notes:
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T11454.
OCLC:
642291952

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