Il Turco
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788865940075 (8865940077)
Publish date: March 2011
Publisher: Nutrimenti
Pages no: 308
Edition language: Italian
In an age when chess-playing computers are hardly a novelty, it might be hard to imagine just how remarkable people found Wolfgang von Kempelen’s automaton. Though little remembered beyond a handful of afficionados today, Kempelen’s Turk was a remarkable novelty in its day, one that delighted the H...
Another one I read in 2003. My journal notes from the time: >>This is about the 18th century chess playing machine. This author also wrote The Victorian Internet, which I read a while back. . . .This book works in a similar way to the other one. The author documents the Turk's history, in the proces...
Funny little piece of history that was absolutely fascinating. Tom Standage, as usual, writes wonderfully.
23 years ago
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