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The Italian Renaissance of machines /

When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this...

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Main Authors: Galluzzi, Paolo
Group Author: Mandelbaum, Jonathan
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Italian
Series: The Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance
Subjects:
1400-1599
Mechanical engineering > Italy > History > 15th century
Mechanical engineering > Italy > History > 16th century
Engineering and the humanities > Italy > History > 15th century
Engineering and the humanities > Italy > History > 16th century
Art and technology > Italy > History > 15th century
Art and technology > Italy > History > 16th century
Renaissance > Italy
Art and technology
Engineering and the humanities
Mechanical engineering
Renaissance
Italy
History
Summary: When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance's greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical
Item Description: Translated from the Italian.
Carrier Form: xi, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
ISBN: 9780674984394 (hardcover : alkaline paper) :
0674984390 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Index Number: TJ79
CLC: TH-095.46
Call Number: TH-095.46/G176
Contents: The Sienese machines -- Leonardo versus the "ancient philosophers" -- Immaterial machines.

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