Engines of the imagination: Renaissance culture and the rise of the machine
The Renaissance machine and its discontents -- The world of Techne -- A word run upon wheels: the sound of Renaissance -- Windmills and Watermills -- Shame -- Philosophy, power, and politics in Renaissance technology -- The vital humour of the terrestrial machine -- A water-driven world -- Watching...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Sawday, Jonathan, Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine] (2010) (Edwards, Michael)
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Machine
/ History 1450-1700
B Renaissance / Machine / History |
| Further subjects: | B
Machinery
History
B Fictional representation |
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| Summary: | The Renaissance machine and its discontents -- The world of Techne -- A word run upon wheels: the sound of Renaissance -- Windmills and Watermills -- Shame -- Philosophy, power, and politics in Renaissance technology -- The vital humour of the terrestrial machine -- A water-driven world -- Watching machines with Montaigne -- Movement and the philosophy of machines -- Machines and social power -- The Renaissance megamachine: Rome 1585-6 -- The turn of the screw: machines, books, and bodies -- Of alientation and pins -- What is't o'clock?: clock time and social status -- Print and mechanical culture -- The birth of the Renaissance machine -- Gregorius Agricola and the invention of mechanical labour -- The syntax of the machine -- the mechanical world of Agostino Ramelli -- The body of the machine -- Texual engines -- Perpetual motions -- Women and wheels: gender and the machine in the Renaissance -- Rosie the Riveter -- The Spinners -- Wheels -- Rotary punishment -- The wheel of Fortune -- A thing made for Alexander -- Nature wrought: artifice, illusion, and magical mechanics -- Metallic fantasies -- Fabricating nature -- Mechanical illusions -- Bodies without souls -- Mechanical Women -- Reasoning Engines: the instrumental imagination in the seventeenth century -- Buying an instrument -- Francis Bacon and the reform of mechanism -- Seeing with machines -- Robert Hooke's artificial bodies -- The second Adam -- Clockwork reason -- The caclulating machine -- Mechanical theology -- Political machines -- Sex machines -- The semi-omnipotent engine -- The idea of the engine -- Milton and industry -- Milton and the machine -- The machine stops -- The interrupted idyll of Andrew Marvell -- The happy return -- Conclusion: the machine stops |
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| ISBN: | 0415350611 |