Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

by Maria Gerolemou

Book Overview

Technical automation - the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously - is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and linguistic relevance of technical automation to natural automatism, demonstrates how ancient literature, performance and engineering were often concerned with the way nature and artifice interacted. Moving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350303844
• ISBN13: 9781350303843
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"