Animating empire : automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the early modern world / Jessica Keating.

By:

Keating, Jessica, 1979- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780271081496
027108149X
9780271081519
0271081511

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DDC classification:

629.80943/09031 23

LOC classification:

TJ211 .K43 2018eb

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Contents:

Early modern automata : an abridged history -- Ever more variations on theme at the court of Rudolf II -- The gifts that keep on giving -- A figure of speech -- Hapsburg-Ottoman diplomatic machinery -- Metamorphosis at the Mughal court -- Conclusion.

Summary: "Recounts the histories of German clockwork automata, which were given as gifts and collected in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"Recounts the histories of German clockwork automata, which were given as gifts and collected in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher

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