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INTRODUCTION
PART I: A Legend
1. To Set the Stage
2. A Miracle and a Vow
3. Diego de Alcalá
4. An Automaton by Juanelo Turriano
5. The Attribution of the Monk
6. A Letter
7. A Monk’s Opinion
PART II: The Monk
8. An Immaculate Object
9. The Monk Performs
10. A Mechanical Anatomy
PART III: Eight Androids
11. Monks, Saints, and Musical Ladies
12. A Second Monk?
13. A Saint in Budapest
14. Three Sister Musicians
15. The Vienna Cittern Player
16. A Late Arrival from Milan
17. The Category Challenge
18. The Earliest Free-Walking Androids
PART IV: A Search for Origins
19. Craft Guild or Imperial Court?
20. Two Masters, Two Cultures: Jakob Bulmann and Juanelo Turriano
21. A Nuremberg Clockmaker’s Workshop
22. The Art Cabinet of Rudolf II
23. Searching the Lost and Found
24. A Monk’s Opinion, Continued
PART V: A Machine That Prays
25 Miracles and Walking Sculptures
26 Perpetual Devotion
27 The Machine and the Corpse
APPENDIX. TABLE OF COMPARISONS: EIGHT AUTOMATA
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX
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