The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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... Maelzel arranges them generally , but not always , with his own hands , on the chess - board , which consists merely of the usual number of squares painted upon the table . The antagonist having taken his seat , the exhibiter ap ...
... Maelzel arranges them generally , but not always , with his own hands , on the chess - board , which consists merely of the usual number of squares painted upon the table . The antagonist having taken his seat , the exhibiter ap ...
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... Maelzel , or , if he is aware of them at all , he puts them in practice with a view of exciting in the spectators a false idea of the pure mechanism in the Automaton . The Turk plays with his left hand . ments of the arm are at right ...
... Maelzel , or , if he is aware of them at all , he puts them in practice with a view of exciting in the spectators a false idea of the pure mechanism in the Automaton . The Turk plays with his left hand . ments of the arm are at right ...
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... Maelzel . This fact fully proves , I that the intervention of Maelzel , in performing the moves of the antagonist on the board of the Automaton , is not essential to the movements of the Automaton , 2 that its movements are regulated by ...
... Maelzel . This fact fully proves , I that the intervention of Maelzel , in performing the moves of the antagonist on the board of the Automaton , is not essential to the movements of the Automaton , 2 that its movements are regulated by ...
Contents
Maelzels ChessPlayer | 6 |
Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
The Philosophy of Furniture | 101 |
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