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9780415350617 (hard-back (cased) : alk. paper)
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IR
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EN-51976
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
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IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Engines of the imagination
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
:Renaissance culture and the rise of the machine
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Jonathan Sawday
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London ;New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 402 p. , ill. , 24 cm.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-383) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Machinery, History
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E-BOOK
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sawday, Jonathan.
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