Picturing machines 1400-1700 /

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 stud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
Colección:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Temas:
Mechanical drawing.
Engineering graphics.
Dessin industriel.
Dessin industriel > Informatique.
drafting.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Drafting & Mechanical Drawing.
Technische Zeichnung
Architekturzeichnung
Technisches Zeichnen
Machines.
Technische tekeningen.
Grafische voorstellingen.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why draw pictures of machines? The social context of early modern machine drawings / Marcus Popplow
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drawing mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney.

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