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Introduction: the Sistine gap / Jessica Riskin

The imitation of life in ancient Greek philosophy / Sylvia Berryman

The devil as automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the meanings of a fifteenth-century machine / Anthony Grafton

Infinite gesture: automata and the emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare / Scott Maisano

Abstracting from the soul: the mechanics of locomotion / Dennis des Chene

The anatomy of artificial life: an eighteenth-century perspective / Joan B. Landes

The homunculus and the mandrake: art aiding nature versus art faking nature / William R. Newman

Sex ratio theory, ancient and modern: an eighteenth-century debate about intelligent design and the development of models in evolutionary biology / Elliott Sober

The gender of automata in Victorian Britain / M. Norton Wise

Techno-humanism: requiem for the cyborg / Timothy Lenoir

Nanobots and nanotubes: two alternative biomimetic paradigms of nanotechnology / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Creating insight: Gestalt theory and the early computer / David Bates

Perpetual devotion: a sixteenth-century machine that prays / Elizabeth King

Motions and passions: music-playing women automata and the culture of affect in late eighteenth-century Germany / Adelheid Voskuhl

An archaeology of artificial life, underwater / Stefan Helmreich

Booting up baby / Evelyn Fox Keller

Body language: lessons from the near-human / Justine Cassell