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The Great Chess Automaton

Nur noch ein Exemplar vorhanden!Nur noch ein Exemplar vorhanden! **

ca. 13,7 x 21,4 cm, 116 Seiten, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1975, Broschur

ca. 13,7 x 21,4 cm, 116 Seiten, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1975, Broschur

Klappentext:
What was it? Was it really a working chess automaton, invented some two hundred years ago? Or was it an ingenious fraud that "baffled the crowned heads of Europe"?
[…] Mr. Carrol vocers all the important aspects of the automaton in a new and perceptive book that tells the history of the Turk and explains how it probably worked. While you are reading his fascinating account you will see why the Turk, even though it was a fake, was a wonderful moment in our cultural history.

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