Picturing machines 1400-1700 / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre.

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
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Series:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Wolfgang Lefevre
  • 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.