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Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention

Title

Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention / edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez.

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Description

x, 238 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

"Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere lvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio "Delminio" Camillo (1480-1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression"--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction, the future is now: reflections on art, science, futurity / Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere A'lvarez -- Moon shot: from renaissance imagination to modern reality / Mari-Tere A'lvarez -- Machines in the garden / Jessica Riskin -- Inventing interfaces: Camillo's memory theater and the renaissancer of human-computer interaction / Peter Matussek -- Futurities, empire, and censorship: Cervantes in conversation with Ovid and Orwell / Frederick A. de Armas -- Anticipating the future: Leonardo's unpublished anatomical and mathematical observations / Morteza Gharib, Francis C. Wells, with Mari-Tere A'lvarez -- Medicine as a hunt: searching for the secrets of the new world / William Eamon -- The half-life of blue / Charlene Villaseñor Black -- "Ingenuity' and artists' ways of knowing / Claire Farago.

ISBN

9780520296985
0520296982
9780520969513 (canceled/invalid)
0520969510 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019020042

OCLC

on1107061334
1107061334
SCSB-9566996

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library