Category: Writings
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English Translation of “The Art of Working Precious Stones For Use in Watchmaking and Optics” by N. Dumontier, 1843
English translation of L’art de travailler les pierres précieuses à l’usage de l’horlogerie et de l’optique… Par N. Dumontier I believe this is one of the earliest sources about using jewels in clock and watchmaking. I mainly used google translate and checked the translation where I felt the phrasing was off. “The Art of Working…
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The Mēchanē in Prometheus Bound: Recognizing the Role of Technology on Stage
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in WritingsThis is a Classics essay I wrote that was then published in an academic journal, Discentes. This is an essay I originally wrote for a Classics seminar at college. As a senior seminar for Classics majors and minors, it attempted to draw on and explore many dimensions of Greek and Roman antiquity through analyzing Greek…
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Thesis: The “Other” in Nineteenth-Century French Automata: Technology, Domestication, and Imperialism
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in WritingsThe “Other” in Nineteenth-Century French Automata: Technology, Domestication, and Imperialism Abstract: Automata – mechanical, self-moving representations of animals and humans – have been studied by historians mainly to account for their popularity in the European Enlightenment, where they influenced conceptions of how matter takes on life and agency in a mechanistic world. However, automata continued…
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