Titre et auteur:

Picturing machines 1400-1700 / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.

Description:

vi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Série(s):

Transformations

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and indexes.
Part I. Why pictures of machines? : Why draw pictures of machines? The social context of early modern machine drawings / Marcus Popplow -- Part II. Pictorial languages and social characters : 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 -- Part III. Seeing and knowing : 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 -- Part IV. Producing shapes : 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 -- Part V. Practice meets theory : Drawing mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney.

Résumé:

Shows in rich detail how drawings of machines were made and used in early modern Europe. They illuminate the formal development of geometrics of representation, the social relations between engineers, artisans, and patrons, and a wide range of other topics.

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ISBN:

0262122693 (alk. paper)
9780262122696 (alk. paper)

Sujet:

Mechanical drawing.
Engineering graphics.
Dessin industriel.
Dessin industriel Informatique.
drafting.
50.01 history of the technical sciences.
30.01 history of the exact sciences.
Technische Zeichnung
Architekturzeichnung
Technisches Zeichnen
Machines.
Technische tekeningen.
Grafische voorstellingen.
Mechanical drawing History.
Engineering graphics History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941-
Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 232492
Cote: T353 .P55 2004
Statut: Disponible