Vaucanson and Automata

[Dave Monroe]

Published in the UK as ...

Wood, Gaby.  Living Dolls: A Magical History
   of the Quest for Mechanical Life.  London:
   Faber, 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4361923,00.html

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,650977,00.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65295&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65293&sort=date

... and worth picking up.  Thanks!

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if Gaby Wood's automata book Edison's
> Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical
> Life (Knopf) has been mentioned here yet...but
> it's due out in August.  Vaucanson's covered in this
> nonfiction book.

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