Rethinking Mechanical Automata in Early Modern Europe
Invited Editor: Stefano Gulizia
Stefano Gulizia, Introduction: Rethinking Mechanical Automata in Early Modern Europe
Lily Filson, Reformation England and the Performance of Wonder: Automata Technology and the Transfer of Power from Church to State
Vera Keller, Living Machines in the Early Stuart Court
Miguel Palomo, Christiaan Huygens’s Cosmotheoros: Anthropological Theology and the Mechanization of Nature
Vittoria Feola, Talismans as Automata. Hebrew Philology and the Mechanisation of Nature in Jacques Gaffarel’s Curiositez
Simon Dumas Primbault, An Ink–and–Paper Automaton: The Conceptual Mechanization of Cognition and the Practical Automation of Reasoning in Leibniz’s De Affectibus (1679)
Christian Henkel, Broadening the Horizon of Occasionalism: From Metaphysics to Science