Picturing machines 1400-1700 /
edited by Wolfgang Lefevre.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
- vi, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Transformations .
- Transformations (M.I.T. Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-333) and indexes.
Why draw pictures of machines? The social context of early modern machine drawings / Marcus Popplow -- The origins of early modern machine design / David McGee -- Social character, pictorial style, and the grammar of technical illustration in craftsmen's manuscripts in the late middle ages / Rainer Leng -- Picturing the machine : Francesco di Giorgio and Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s / Pamela O. Long -- Measures of success : military engineering and the architectonic understanding of design / Mary Henninger-Voss -- Renaissance descriptive geometry : the codification of drawing methods / Filippo Camerota -- The emergence of combined orthographic projections / Wolfgang Lefevre -- Projections embodied in technical drawings : Durer and his followers / Jeanne Peiffer -- Drawing mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney.