Cargando…

Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention /

"Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), prolific...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Villaseñor Black, Charlene, 1962- (Editor ), Alvarez, Mari-Tere (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the future is now : reflections on art, science, futurity / Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez
  • Moon shot: from renaissance imagination to modern reality / Mari-Tere Álvarez
  • Machines in the garden / Jessica Riskin
  • Inventing interfaces : Camillo's memory theater and the renaissance of human-computer interaction / Peter Matussek
  • Futurities, empire, and censorship: Cervantes in conversation with Ovid and Orwell / Frederick A. de Armas
  • Anticipating the future : Leonardo's unpublished anatomical and mathematical observations / Morteza Gharib, Francis C. Wells, with Mari-Tere Álvarez
  • Medicine as a hunt : searching for the secrets of the new world / William Eamon
  • The half-life of blue / Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • "Ingenuity' and artists' ways of knowing / Claire Farago.