The paper collects the greek and latin testimonies on real or fictitious acoustic automata. The words and the meanings concerning the automatic devices have been considered and analysed as the most important personalities of engineers and inventors, in order to determine and single out the possible connections between their creations and the social, political and economic systems that gave impulse to this creative impetus. The analysis tries also to point to the ludic aspects of this process, in which abstraction, epistemological mechanisms, empiric praxis, go together and alternate themselves in a game played between the inventor and his public, a game made of secrets, enigmas, discoveries and acknowledgement, in order to obtain concrete objects that share many aspects with the toys.

Gioco ingegno utopia. Automata sonori nel mondo greco-romano. Alcuni spunti di riflessione / F. Berlinzani. - In: LANX. - ISSN 2035-4797. - 5:13(2012), pp. 27-51. [10.13130/2035-4797/3151]

Gioco ingegno utopia. Automata sonori nel mondo greco-romano. Alcuni spunti di riflessione

F. Berlinzani
2012

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The paper collects the greek and latin testimonies on real or fictitious acoustic automata. The words and the meanings concerning the automatic devices have been considered and analysed as the most important personalities of engineers and inventors, in order to determine and single out the possible connections between their creations and the social, political and economic systems that gave impulse to this creative impetus. The analysis tries also to point to the ludic aspects of this process, in which abstraction, epistemological mechanisms, empiric praxis, go together and alternate themselves in a game played between the inventor and his public, a game made of secrets, enigmas, discoveries and acknowledgement, in order to obtain concrete objects that share many aspects with the toys.
acoustic automata ; ludic aspects ; Ktesibios; Heron of Alexandria ; Philon of Byzantium ; hydraulis ; thaumatopoiike
Settore L-ANT/02 - Storia Greca
2012
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