How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new metho

How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new metho

This fascinating book will be of as much interest to engineers as to art historians, examining as it does the evolution of machine design methodology from the R

The Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiographical oeuvre was renunciatio

This book provides a reinterpretation of early modern clock and watch dials on the basis of use. Between 1550 and the emergence of a standard format in 1770, di