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Gods and Robots - Adrienne Mayor

Gods and Robots

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

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Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20226-6 (ISBN)
CHF 27,90 inkl. MwSt
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life - and even invented real automated machines
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—and even invented real automated machines

The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology was exploring ideas about creating artificial life—and grappling with still-unresolved ethical concerns about biotechne, "life through craft." In this compelling, richly illustrated book, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements—and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines. Revealing how science has always been driven by imagination, and how some of today's most advanced tech innovations were foreshadowed in ancient myth, Gods and Robots is a gripping new story of mythology for the age of AI.

Adrienne Mayor is the author of several books, including The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World and The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, which was a finalist for the National Book Award (both Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 11 color + 75 b/w illus.
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-691-20226-5 / 0691202265
ISBN-13 978-0-691-20226-6 / 9780691202266
Zustand Neuware
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