Engineering:Descartes' daughter
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Descartes' daughter is an apocryphal automaton which was said to have been constructed in the form of René Descartes' real daughter, Francine Descartes.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ Gaby Wood (25 August 2002), "First chapter", Edison's Eve, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/books/chapters/edisons-eve.html
- ↑ Kang, Minsoo (2017), "The Mechanical Daughter of Rene Descartes: The origin and history of an intellectual fable", Modern Intellectual History 14 (3): 633–660, doi:10.1017/S147924431600024X
- ↑ Descartes' Daughter, Swiss Institute, 2013, https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/descartes-daughter/
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