Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and its Legend

$45.00 at de Young Museum.

STAFF RECOMMENDS“Welcome to the bleeding edge of technology and artificial intelligence—from the year 1562! This 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.” - Tim \ Book & Media Manager The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian…