Picturing machines 1400-1700 /

Other Authors: Lefèvre, Wolfgang,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
Series:Transformations
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126016
Table of 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 Lefèvre
  • Projections embodied in technical drawings : Dürer and his followers / Jeanne Peiffer
  • Drawing mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney.