Picturing machines 1400-1700 / edited by Wolfgang Lefevre.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.Description: vi, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262122693 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • T 353 .P55 2004
Contents:
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.
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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.

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