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Picturing machines 1400-1700
- 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
- 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