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: Livre sur les automates
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Collector’s book about automatons: "le monde des automates, étude historique et technique"(The World of Automatons a Historical and Technical study).
Authors of this book about automatons: Alfred Chapuis and Edouard Gélis.
Weight : 5500 g
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L-06
Dimensions : 35 X 25 cm
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Collector’s book about automatons: "le monde des automates, étude historique et technique"(The World of Automatons a Historical and Technical study).
Authors of this book about automatons: Alfred Chapuis and Edouard Gélis.
Summary of this book about automatons This reference book was written, in 1928 by two automaton specialists and later re-edited in 1984.
In these 720-pages, two-volumes, Alfred Chapuis and Edouard Gélis follow the great automaton makers and their mechanical creations from antiquity until the early 20th century.
The two volumes are filled with black-and-white photos, drawings, diagrams, plans and sketches which the authors use to explain their functioning(drawings and sketches of mechanical parts, joints that create movement, etc).
FIRST VOLUME:
The first jointed figures, primitive automatons - The school of Alexandria - The Byzantine and Muslim automatons -Hydraulic automatons - Automatons in the Middle Ages - Automatons in Christian religion - The jaquemarts -Table clocks and Silversmith pieces for automatons - Automatons in apartment’s wall clocks - Wooden automatons - Clocks, pendulums, wall clocks and fantasy pieces with figurines or animated scenes - The mechanical paintings - Automatons’ theaters .
SECOND VOLUME:
The Mechanical weathervanes- The Automatons toys - Clocks and snuff boxes – The Singing birds – The Mechanical animals – The Automaton Magicians and conjurors -The Androids makers - The machines and talking heads – The Walking androids and automatons – The Writing and drawing androids –The Musician androids – The Fake automatons – Automatism and orthopedics – The Automaton and literature.
Book of 720 pages in 2 volumes and written in the French language.
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