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The Italian Renaissance of machines /

When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galluzzi, Paolo (Author)
Other Authors: Mandelbaum, Jonathan (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Italian.
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2020]
Series:Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
Subjects:
Mechanical engineering > Italy > History > 15th century.
Mechanical engineering > Italy > History > 16th century.
Engineering and the humanities > Italy > History > 15th century.
Engineering and the humanities > Italy > History > 16th century.
Art and technology > Italy > History > 15th century.
Art and technology > Italy > History > 16th century.
Renaissance > Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • The Sienese machines
  • Leonardo versus the "ancient philosophers"
  • Immaterial machines.