Its Rolling Furious Eyes
James Vincent: Automata, 22 February 2024
Miracles and Machines: A 16th-Century Automaton and Its Legend
by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd.
Getty, 245 pp., £39.99, August 2023,978 1 60606 839 7 Show More
by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd.
Getty, 245 pp., £39.99, August 2023,
“... took his pulse in disbelief. Now, the monk’s mechanical likeness, commissioned by a pious king for an impetuous son, would offer similar testimony to the power of saintly bodies. The automaton resides today in the Smithsonian, reminding us of humanity’s long-standing desire to create life that survives death – an impulse once fulfilled through ... ”