Precious Metal-People

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	1.	Descartes's Daughter 01:00:03		buy track
	2.	Da Vinci's Knight 01:14:56		buy track

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RPM Challenge entry for 2022

This year, the RPM Challenge offered a new option this year - a box set. I decided to go for this new, bigger challenge.

I was inspired by ancient robots.

The Buddhist scholar Daoxuan (596-667 CE) wrote about "precious metal-people," humanoid automata that recited sacred texts and cried when the Buddha died.

René Descartes believed that animals and humans were just biological machines, and had a mechanical doll version of his dead daughter, Francine.

Leonardo Da Vinci designed, and may have built, an automaton of a knight in armor.

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released February 28, 2022

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