{"product_id":"miracles-and-machines-a-sixteenth-century-automaton-and-its-legend","title":"Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and its Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTAFF RECOMMENDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Welcome to the bleeding edge of technology and artificial intelligence—\u003cem\u003efrom the year 1562! \u003c\/em\u003eThis study of ‘The Monk’, a sixteenth-century clockwork figure that simulates a Franciscan friar, examines the early automaton’s role as a mechanical curiosity and an artificial human. An oddly fascinating (and just a little bit creepy) account of the religious robots of the Renaissance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Tim \\ Book \u0026amp; Media Manager\u003c\/p\u003e\nThe walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to legend connected to the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. \u003cem\u003eHardcover, 256 pages.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"GETTY PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58651785953583,"sku":"srt1791999197529","price":35.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0986\/3213\/9055\/files\/miracles-and-machines-a-sixteenth-century-automaton-and-its-legend_1.jpg?v=1791999206","url":"https:\/\/proseamfit.shop\/products\/miracles-and-machines-a-sixteenth-century-automaton-and-its-legend","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}