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

by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd

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.

This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as "the monk." The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606068393
• ISBN13: 9781606068397
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Getty Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.3"