Picturing machines, (1400-1700) / edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre

INTRODUCTION / Wolfgang Lefèvre. PART I. WHY PICTURES OF MACHINES?. Introduction to Part I. 1. Why draw pictures of machines? The social contexts of early modern machine drawings / Marcus Popplow. PART II. PICTORIAL LANGUAGES AND SOCIAL CHARACTERS. Introduction to Part II. 2. The origins of early modern machine design / David McGee. 3. Social character, pictorial style, and the grammar of technical illustration in Craftsmen's manuscripts in the late Middle Ages / Rainer Leng. PART III. SEEING AND KNOWING. Introduction to Part III. 4. Picturing the machine : Francesco di Giorgio and Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s / Pamela O. Long. 5. Measures of success: military engineering and the architectonic understanding of design / Mary Henninger-Voss. PART IV. PRODUCING SHAPES. Intruduction to Part IV. 6. Renaissance descriptive geometry: the codification of drawing methods / Filippo Camerota. 7. The emergence of Combined orthographic projections / Wolfgang Lefèvre. 8. Projections embodied in technical drawgins: dürer and his followers / Jeanne Peiffer. PART V. PRACTICE MEETS THEORY. Introduction to Part V. 9. Drawings mechanics / Michael S. Mahoney. APPENDIX.