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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
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1 Introduction: The Sistine Gap -
2 The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -
3 The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -
4 Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -
5 Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -
6 The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -
7 The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -
8 Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth-Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -
9 The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -
10 Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -
11 Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -
12 Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -
13 Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -
14 Motions and Passions -
15 An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -
16 Booting Up Baby -
17 Body Language - Index
Title Pages
Title Pages
- Source:
- Genesis Redux
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Introduction: The Sistine Gap -
2 The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -
3 The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -
4 Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -
5 Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -
6 The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -
7 The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -
8 Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth-Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -
9 The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -
10 Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -
11 Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -
12 Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -
13 Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -
14 Motions and Passions -
15 An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -
16 Booting Up Baby -
17 Body Language - Index
