The Resource Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology, Adrienne Mayor
Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology, Adrienne Mayor
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- Summary
- Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 275 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Contents
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- Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans
- Hephaestus: divine devices and automata
- Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil
- Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world
- Epilogue. Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: made, not born
- The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea
- Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation
- The quest for immortality and eternal youth
- Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals
- Daedalus and the living statues
- Isbn
- 9780691183510
- Label
- Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
- Title
- Gods and robots
- Title remainder
- myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
- Statement of responsibility
- Adrienne Mayor
- Title variation
- Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10741599
- Cataloging source
- HQD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mayor, Adrienne
- Dewey number
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- 930
- 609/.01
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Robotics
- Robots
- Science, Ancient
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
- Label
- Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology, Adrienne Mayor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans
- Hephaestus: divine devices and automata
- Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil
- Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world
- Epilogue. Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: made, not born
- The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea
- Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation
- The quest for immortality and eternal youth
- Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals
- Daedalus and the living statues
- Control code
- on1060968156
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 275 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780691183510
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1060968156
- Label
- Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology, Adrienne Mayor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans
- Hephaestus: divine devices and automata
- Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil
- Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world
- Epilogue. Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: made, not born
- The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea
- Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation
- The quest for immortality and eternal youth
- Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals
- Daedalus and the living statues
- Control code
- on1060968156
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 275 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780691183510
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1060968156
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