Capek, Karel

These are the words of Karel Capek the Czech writer after his visit to the mineral collection of the British Museum [2], He added a drawing (Figure 9-1) to his words to express his humility in front of these miracles of nature. Figure 9-2 displays crystal images from the mineral collection of Eotvos University, Budapest. 

Figure 9-1. Karel Capek s drawing after his visit to the mineral collection of the British Museum (reproduced with permission) [3],...

These are the words of Karel Capek, the Czech writer, after his visit to the... 

The term robot was coined by Karel Capek s brother Jozef Capek. Before the play R.U.R. was written, the word did not exist. According to Karel Capek, his brother proposed this term for the artificial humanlike creatures of his play. Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia explain the origin of the word is as follows ... 

The word robot was first used in a play written by Czechoslovakian Karel Capek in 1920. The play was called Rossum s Universal Robots. The word robot is derived from the Czech word robota, which means forced labor. ... 

On the influence of Bergson on the Czech writers, see Thomas Ort, Men without Qualities Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938, Ph.D dissertation. New York University, September 2005. 

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