| Author | Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941- |
| Place | Cambridge, MA |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Digital Book (PDF) |
| Series | Transformations (M.I.T. Press) |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | T353.P55 2004d |
| Description | vi, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Note | Picturing machines 1400-1700 / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre. Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and indexes. Part I. Why pictures of machines? : Why draw pictures of machines? The social context of early modern machine drawings / Marcus Popplow -- Part II. Pictorial languages and social characters : 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 -- Part III. Seeing and knowing : 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 -- Part IV. Producing shapes : 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 -- Part V. Practice meets theory : Drawing mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney. Local access dig.pdf. [Lefevre-Picturing machines.pdf] |
| ISBN | 0262122693 ; 9780262122696 |
| LCCN | 2003070620 |