Wonder, Sorcery, and Technology: Contribute to the History of Medieval Robotics
Nadia Ambrosetti
The paper considers some Medieval sources about imagined or actually studied automata, to make a contribution the reconstruction of cultural landscape period that, from technological point view, is commonly regarded as less interesting than others. It will be shown that idea an automatic device system, capable performing not necessarily simple tasks, measuring its own state and taking action based on it, was well established in mind, even though sometimes connected with magic.
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