Saturday, July 14, 2007

Clockwork Monk

What an Excellent idea!
clipped from www.brown.edu

A Renaissance clockwork monk now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, together with the legend of its votive connection to an episode from the history of medicine and miracle, afford a glimpse of competing definitions of the substance of the alive body in the early Counter-Reformation: the birth of the machine in the Age of Faith.

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