Meaning of androides | Babel Free

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android

New-Latin, declension-3

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“Parce qu'en ce chapit. il ne parle que de ces images ou statuës parlantes, telle que on dit faussemẽt auoir esté l'Androide d'Albert le Grand.”

For in that chapter he speaks only of talking figures or statues, of such kind as they report (although falsely) the Android of Albertus Magnus to have been

“ALBERTVS M. Ratisbonensium ille Episcopus & Germaniae nostrae olim decus. Hic quoque niger est passim apud daemonographos magiae vetitae suspicione, quod Androidem seu imaginem aeneam ita fabricasse dicatur, ut loqui, et ad quaesita respondere potuerit. [...] Alphonsus Tostatus Avilensis Episcopus d) Albertum M. perhibet Androidem suam Ita confecisse...”

Albertus M. bishop of Regensburg and once the glory of our Germany. He also is black among demonologers everywhere by suspicion of forbidden magic, because he is said to have made an android, or bronze figure, that could speak and respond to questions. … Alphonsus Tostatus Bishop of Ávila asserts that Albertus M. made his android in such a way...

“Quam equidem propter causam abesse vix poterat, quin GERBERTI characteres numerorum et figurae geometricae, quasi signa magica, ALBERTI MAGNI, ROGERII BACONIS atque AGRIPPAE androides sive homines artificiosi, atque specula mirifica, nec non 10. REGIOMONTANI aquila & musca ferrea, quasi machinae diabolicae aut magicae; GALILAEI denique & IORDANI BRVNI de mirabili fixarum quasi totidem solium absque circuitu persistentium, nec non de planetarum, quasi totidem terrarum coelestium atque inhabitatarum, multitudine dogmata, tanquam pessima hominum sine deo viventium deliramenta, tantum non ab omnibus perstringerentur, damnarentur.”

“Objectio. Albertus Magnus androidem confecisse legitur, quae extraneo pulsanti cellulae januam aperiret, atque, eidem reverentia praevie exhibita, recederet.”

Objection. Albertus Magnus is said to have created an android, which would open the door of the room to a knocking stranger, and, having previously exhibited respect to him, would withdraw.

“Quibus argumentis probatur, belluas non esse automata inanimata? Quare bruta operari dici nequeunt ad instar androidum ab hominibus confectarum?”

With which arguments is it proved, that beasts are not inanimate automatons? Why cannot irrational animals be said to function after the fashion of androids made by men?

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