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Introduction : the persistence of robots : an archaeology of automata --
Rare devices : geography and technology --
Between art and nature : Natura artifex, neoplatonism, and litrary 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.

Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art
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