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  1. Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Vienna, Austria & Budapest, Hungary

    Hanoch Ben-Yami

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Dana Jalobeanu

  2. Dept. of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University Dept. Philosophy & Moral Sci, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

    Charles T. Wolfe

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  1. Wissenschaftsgeschichte/History of Science, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Cesare Pastorino

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Ben-Yami, H. (2020). Automata in the Early Modern Period. In: Jalobeanu, D., Wolfe, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_239-1

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