Picturing Machines 1400-1700

by Wolfgang Lefèvre

How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.

Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings--among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices--have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architects and engineers themselves is seldom considered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262122693
• ISBN13: 9780262122696
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher