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Tag Archives: Automata
1930: Work Must Not Cease
A performance of Karel Capek’s R.U.R. at the Haohel Theater, Tel Aviv in 1930. The play opens in Rossum’s Universal Robots (thus the title), a factory which manufactures artificial humanoids designed to be perfect obedient workers. At first, the robots … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 1930's, 20th Century, Automata, Czechoslovakia, Drama, Israel, Karel Capek, Labor, Language, Palestine, Photography, Rebellion
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1732: The Morals of Chess
Although Benjamin Franklin likely composed his essay “The Morals of Chess” as early as 1732, it was first published in 1786, during the height of interest surrounding Wolfgang von Kempelen’s mechanical chess-playing Turk; Franklin himself had lost to the machine … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 18th Century, 19th Century, Art, Automata, Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, Chess, Digital Art, Diplomacy, Edward Harrison May, France, Great Britain, Negotiations, Painting, Richard Howe, Thomas Jefferson, USA, William Temple Franklin, Wolfgang von Kempelen
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1649: Descartes’s Wooden Daughter
When Descartes resided in Holland, with great labour and industry he made a female Automaton—which occasioned some wicked wits to publish that he had an illegitimate daughter, named Franchine—to prove demonstratively that beasts have no souls, and that they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 18th Century, Automata, Children, Fathers, France, Julien La Mettrie, Miniatures, Netherlands, Philosophy, René Descartes
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