Nadia started following the work of Valentina Nava, IUAV University Venice, Storia dell'Architettura.
Nadia started following the work of John Cirilli, University of Notre Dame, History and Philosophy of Science.
Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy)
Department Member, Computer Science
Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Cultural Roots of Technology: An Interdisciplinary Study of Automated Systems from the Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Gianfranco Prini
Giliola Barbero |
About
The work considers sources about imagined or actually studied automata, to make a contribution to the reconstruction of the cultural landscape of a period that, from the technological point of view, is commonly regarded as less interesting than others. It will be shown that the idea of an automatic device or system, capable of performing not necessarily simple tasks, of measuring its own state and of taking action based on it, was well established even in the Medieval mind, though sometimes connected with magic.
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