Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine

By Jonathan Sawday

At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, Engines of the Imagination traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415350611
• ISBN13: 9780415350617
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"