Author: W.Lefevre
Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
The MIT Press
2004
355
Format: Pdf
Size: 11 MB
Language: English
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.
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