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Author:

Galluzzi, Paolo author.

Title:

The Italian Renaissance of machines / Paolo Galluzzi ; translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Mandelbaum, Jonathan, translator.

Notes:

Translated from the Italian. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Sienese machines -- Leonardo versus the "ancient philosophers" -- Immaterial machines.

Summary:

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 rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance's greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical figure: the artist-engineer. In the medieval world, innovators remained anonymous. By the height of the fifteenth century, artist-engineers like Leonardo da Vinci were sought after by powerful patrons, generously remunerated, and exhibited in royal and noble courts. In an age that witnessed continuous wars, the robust expansion of trade and industry, and intense urbanization, these practitioners--with their multiple skills refined in the laboratory that was the Renaissance workshop--became catalysts for change. Renaissance masters were not only astoundingly creative but also championed a new concept of learning, characterized by observation, technical know-how, growing mathematical competence, and prowess at the draftsman's table. The Italian Renaissance of Machines enriches our appreciation for Taccola, Giovanni Fontana, and other masters of the quattrocento and reveals how da Vinci's ambitious achievements paved the way for Galileo's revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance

ISBN:

0674984390
9780674984394

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1090014688

LCCN:

2019014445

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)