Author: Peter BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Encyclopædia of Arts, Manufactures, and Machinery ...
Author: Peter BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Bodies/Machines
Author: Iwan Rhys MorusPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
Catalogue of the Library of Parliament: General library
Author: Canada. Library of ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada
Author: Canada. Parlement. BibliothèquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Subject List of Works of Reference, Biography, Bibliography, the Auxiliary Historical Sciences, Etc., in the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge
Author: EncyclopaediaCyclopaedia of Chemistry with Its Applications to Mineralogy, Physiology, and the Arts
Author: Robert Dundas ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Veterinary Art
Author: W. C. SpoonerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Life of Thomas Aquinas
Author: Renn Dickson Hampden (Bp. of Hereford)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scholasticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description