Picturing Machines 1400 1700 Transformations Studies in the History of Science and Technology 1st Edition by Wolfgang Lefèvre ISBN 978-0262122696 0262122693

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ISBN 10:   0262122693

ISBN 13: 978-0262122696

Author:  Wolfgang Lefèvre

How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.
Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings—among them Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawings of mechanical devices—have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architects and engineers themselves is seldom considered. The essays in Picturing Machines 1400–1700 take this alternate perspective and look at how drawing shaped the practice of early modern engineering. They do so through detailed investigations of specific images, looking at over 100 that range from sketches to perspective views to thoroughly constructed projections.

In early modern engineering practice, drawings were not merely visualizations of ideas but acted as models that shaped ideas. Picturing Machines establishes basic categories for the origins, purposes, functions, and contexts of early modern engineering illustrations, then treats a series of topics that not only focus on the way drawings became an indispensable means of engineering but also reflect the main stages in their historical development. The authors examine the social interaction conveyed by early machine images and their function as communication between practitioners; the knowledge either conveyed or presupposed by technical drawings, as seen in those of Giorgio Martini and Leonardo; drawings that required familiarity with geometry or geometric optics, including the development of architectural plans; and technical illustrations that bridged the gap between practical and theoretical mechanics.

Table of contents: 

PART I: WHY PICTURES OF MACHINES?

Introduction to Part I

Why Draw Pictures of Machines? The Social Contexts of Early Modern Machine Drawings

Marcus Popplow

PART II: PICTORIAL LANGUAGES AND SOCIAL CHARACTERS

Introduction to Part II

2 The Origins of Early Modem 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

Introduction to Part III

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

PART IV: PRODUCING SHAPES

Introduction to Part IV

6 Renaissance Descriptive Geometry: The Codification of Drawing Methods

Filippo Camerota

7 The Emergence of Combined Orthographic Projections

Wolfgang Lefèvre

Projections Embodied in Technical Drawings: Dürer and

His Followers

Jeanne Peiffer

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