Ebook: Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art

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.