Research Catalog

Title

Picturing machines 1400-1700 / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941-

Description

vi, 347 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Transformations

Uniform Title

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Subjects

• Technische tekeningen
• Mechanical drawing
• Machines
• Grafische voorstellingen
• Engineering graphics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-333) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Wolfgang Lafevre -- 1. Why draw pictures of machines? : the social contexts of early modern machine drawings / Marcus Popplow -- 2. The origins of early modern machine design / David McGee -- 3. Social character, pictorial style, and the grammar of technical illustration in craftsmen's manuscripts in the Late Middle Ages / Rainer Leng -- 4. Picturing the machine : Francesco di Giorgio and Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s / Pamela O. Long -- 5. Measures of success : military engineering and the architectonic understanding of design / Mary Henninger-Voss -- 6. Renaissance descriptive geometry : the codification of drawing methods / Filippo Camerota -- 7. The emergence of combined orthographic projections / Wolfgang Lefevre -- 8. Projections embodied in technical drawings : Durer and his followers / Jeanne Peiffer -- 9. Drawing mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney.

ISBN

• 0262122693 (alk. paper)
• 9780262122696 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2003070620
• 99818733530

OCLC

• 53940619
• ocm53940619
• SCSB-5380921

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries