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Otto Mayr
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Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy
This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an ‘architect’ of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin. He is one of the most widely known biologists of the 20th century.
Die Welt in Karten
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The Origins of Feedback Control
A case study in the intellectual history of technology, the book spans the invention of feedback control devices in all degrees of realization, from the verbally expressed idea to the industrially proved apparatus.
Miracles and Machines
An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays. This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to legend connected to the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a hum...
The Deutsches Museum
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"Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity"
An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
