1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001247890403321

Autore

Grothendieck, Alexandre

Titolo

The Tame fundamental Group of a Formal Neig hourhood of a Divisor with Normal Crossings on a Scheme / by Grothendieck, A. - Murre, J.P.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.], 1971

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; 208

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-20-(208

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004115520403321

Autore

Bellak, Leopold

Titolo

C.A.T. Children's apperception test : manuale del test e del supplemento C.A.T.-S. / Leopold Bellak e Sonya Bellak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : Organizzazioni Speciali, 1987

ISBN

88-09-40059-3

Edizione

[2. rist.]

Descrizione fisica

61 p. ; 24 cm + 1 serie di tav. (10) di appercezione tematica, 1 serie di tav. (3) di legno con figure a incastro

Disciplina

155.4

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

P.1 PSV 160

P.1 PSV 160 (TAVOLE)

P.1 PSV 160 (FIGURE A INCASTRO)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788125303321

Autore

Truitt Elly Rachel

Titolo

Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / / E. R. Truitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8122-2357-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Middle Ages Series

Disciplina

629.8

Soggetti

Machine theory - History - To 1500

Mechanical toys - History - To 1500

Mechanical engineering - History - To 1500

Civilization, Medieval

Nature and civilization - History - To 1500

Magic - History - To 1500

Imagination - History - To 1500

Robots - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Persistence of Robots: An Archaeology of Automata -- Chapter 1. Rare Devices: Geography and Technology -- Chapter 2. Between Art and Nature: Natura artifex, Neoplatonism, and Literary Automata -- Chapter 3. Talking Heads: Astral Science, Divination, and Legends of Medieval Philosophers -- Chapter 4. The Quick and the Dead: Corpses, Memorial Statues, and Automata -- Chapter 5. From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry -- Chapter 6. The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or



surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental questions about knowledge, nature, and divine purpose in the Middle Ages. Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. Chronicled in romances and song as well as histories and encyclopedias, medieval automata were powerful cultural objects that probed the limits of natural philosophy, illuminated and challenged definitions of life and death, and epitomized the transformative and threatening potential of foreign knowledge and culture. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture and demonstrates the striking similarities between medieval and modern robotic and cybernetic visions.