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“... of her as stupid, just as having an agenda of her own.) These things have a deep history, and Jessica Riskin’s wide-ranging, witty and astonishingly learned book aims to recover it. People in the past thought in radically different ways from the way we do now about what it is to be a human being and a machine, and none of these past sensibilities ...”

“... the creation of all automata: ‘a motionless thing that comes to life’.The historian of science Jessica Riskin has noted that the Church was the greatest sponsor of proto-robots in the late Middle Ages in Europe. Cathedrals and monasteries not only possessed the material wealth necessary to create mechanical spectacles but nurtured technical ...”