Keating, Jessica,  1979- <br/><br/>
Animating empire :  automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the early modern world / 
Jessica Keating. 
 - University Park, Pennsylvania :  The Pennsylvania State University Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Early modern automata : an abridged history --  Ever more variations on theme at the court of Rudolf II --  The gifts that keep on giving --  A figure of speech --  Hapsburg-Ottoman diplomatic machinery --  Metamorphosis at the Mughal court --  Conclusion. 
<br/><br/> "Recounts the histories of German clockwork automata, which were given as gifts and collected in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271081496 9780271081519 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Robots--History--Holy Roman Empire--16th century.<br/>Robots in art.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TJ211  / .A556 2018