Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in Old Regime France / by Bertucci, Paola

“…Science and the mechanical arts in Old Regime France…”
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Four historical definitions of architecture by Parcell, Stephen, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Architecture as a technē -- Architecture as a mechanical art -- Hugh of St Victor and the mechanical arts -- Architecture as an art of Disegno -- Alberti and the arts of Disegno -- Vasari and the arts of Disegno -- Architecture as a fine art -- Boullée and the fine arts -- Conclusion.…”
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Openness, secrecy, authorship : technical arts and the culture of knowledge from antiquity to the Renaissance by Long, Pamela O.

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Editions and Translations""; ""INTRODUCTION Categories and Key Words Local Meaning in Long-Term History""; ""Chapter 1 Open Authorship within Ancient Traditions of Techneµ and Praxis""; ""Chapter 2 Secrecy and Esoteric Knowledge in Late Antiquity""; ""Chapter 3 Handing Down Craft Knowledge""; ""Chapter 4 Authorship on the Mechanical Arts in the Last Scribal Age""; ""Chapter 5 Secrecy and the Esoteric Traditions of the Renaissance""; ""Chapter 6 Openness and Authorship I Mining, Metallurgy, and the Military Arts""…”
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Openness, secrecy, authorship : technical arts and the culture of knowledge from antiquity to the Renaissance by Long, Pamela O.

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Editions and Translations""; ""INTRODUCTION Categories and Key Words Local Meaning in Long-Term History""; ""Chapter 1 Open Authorship within Ancient Traditions of Techneµ and Praxis""; ""Chapter 2 Secrecy and Esoteric Knowledge in Late Antiquity""; ""Chapter 3 Handing Down Craft Knowledge""; ""Chapter 4 Authorship on the Mechanical Arts in the Last Scribal Age""; ""Chapter 5 Secrecy and the Esoteric Traditions of the Renaissance""; ""Chapter 6 Openness and Authorship I Mining, Metallurgy, and the Military Arts""…”
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Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy. by Formigari, Lia

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The Origins of Monsters : Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction. by Wengrow, D.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff; 2 Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture; 3 The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art; 4 Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals; 5 Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts; 6 Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective; CONCLUSION: Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Maroon and white : Mississippi State University, 1878-2003 by Ballard, Michael B.

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Baudelaire's media aesthetics : the gaze of the Flâneur and 19th century media by Grøtta, Marit

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Angels, Demons and The New World. by Cervantes, Fernando

Table of Contents: “…Hapsburg Angelology and the IncasEpilogue: Bartolomé de las Casas and the foundations of an American demonology; 8 Winged and imagined Indians; Song and mechanical arts; The charm of childhood; Confessing visions; Bearer of portents; Marian Angelophanies; Towards Altars and Platforms; Intermingled dignities and identities; 9 'Psychomachia Indiana': angels, devils and holy images in New Spain; Works cited; Index.…”
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The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy. by Berryman, Sylvia

Table of Contents: “…The discipline of mechanics and the 'mechanization' of philosophyThe mechanical arts and the 'mechanization' of philosophy; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index.…”
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The annual register, or a view of the history, politics, and literature, of the year 1823.

Table of Contents: “…. -- NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, AND MECHANICAL ARTS. -- NATURAL HISTORY. -- GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY, &amp -- C. -- CHEMISTRY. -- AGRICULTURE AND BOTANY. -- ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. -- PATENTS.…”
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Technology : critical history of a concept by Schatzberg, Eric, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an odd concept -- "The trouble with techne": ancient conceptions of technical knowledge -- The discourse of ars in the Latin middle ages -- Natural philosophy and the mechanical arts in the early modern era -- From art to applied science: creating a "semantic void" -- Technology in the nineteenth century: a marginal concept -- Discourse of Technik: engineers and humanists -- Thorstein Veblen's appropriation of Technik -- Veblen's legacy: culture versus determinism -- Technology in the social sciences before World War II -- Science and technology between the world wars -- Suppression and revival: technology in World War II and the Cold War -- Conclusion: technology as keyword in the 1960s and beyond -- Rehabilitating technology: a manifesto.…”
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The selected writings of benjamin rush by Runes, Dagobert D.

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Worthy efforts : attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe by Lis, Catharina

Table of Contents: “…-- Humanists and the Pursuit of Private Wealth -- Urban Middle Groups and Big Business -- Self-Images and Self-Representations -- Businesswomen -- Short-Lived Communities of Commerce -- The Ideal of a Commercial Society -- New Dissonances -- Chapter Six Artisans: Practice and Theory -- Mechanical Arts -- Craft Guilds.…”
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Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art. by Cohen, Simona

Table of Contents: “…Defining the Frame of ReferenceLiberal and Mechanical Arts; Arms and Armor; The Function of the Maxims; Images of Virtue; Images of Time; Contrasts of Virtues and Vices; Virtutis laus omnis in actione consistit; Chapter Eight Kairos/Occasio-Vicissitudes of Propitious Time from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Lysippos and the Classical Literary Tradition; The Fate of Kairos/Occasio in Medieval Art; Pigliar il Tempo: Kairos/Occasio and Fortuna in the Early Renaissance; Occasio & Fortuna-the Literary Tradition of the Early Cinquecento; Occasio and the Fata Morgana.…”
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Crafting creativity & creating craft

Table of Contents: “…CONCEPTUAL, BIOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSES OF CRAFT -- INTRODUCTION AND GUIDING QUESTIONS -- COMPONENTS OF CRAFT -- THREE FIELDS OF CRAFT -- EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN OF CRAFTS -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRAFTS -- Crafts as mechanical arts -- Separation of fine arts from crafts -- Industrialization and the disappearance of crafts -- Revival of crafts -- Separation of design from crafts -- Rejection of ornamentation -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES…”
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Christianity, latinity, and culture : two studies on Lorenzo Valla by Camporeale, Salvatore I.

Table of Contents: “…2.9 The Reduction of Philosophy to Rhetoric and Valla's Quintilianism2.10 The Linguistic-Semantic Critique of Scholasticism and the Interrelation between Greek and Latin; 2.11 Peroration and Closing of the Encomium; 3.1 Philosophy/Theology; 3.2 Dialectic/Rhetoric; 4.1 The proemium to Book IV of the Elegantiae; 4.2 The Letter to Eustochium and Jerome's Dream; 4.3 The Mechanical Arts, the Liberal Arts, and the Christian Religion; 4.4 The Opposition between Philosophical Theology and Rhetorical Theology, and the Critical Reduction of the Vulgate to the Greek Truth (veritas graeca).…”
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Neurology of the arts : painting, music and literature. by Rose, F. Clifford

Table of Contents: “…Clifford Rose -- Galen and the artful symmetry of the brain / Julius Rocca -- Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical art and the origin of modern neurology / David A. …”
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Futurism : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…(1917)A Tranquil Thought (1917); Women of the Near Future [2] (1917); Manifesto of the Italian Futurist Party (1918); The Vote for Women (1919); Futurist Manifesto of Women's Fashion (1920); Beyond Communism (1920); Tactilism (1921); The Theater of Surprise (1921); Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art (1922); The Italian Empire (1923); Fascism and Futurism (1923); Futurist Sensibility (1927); Electrical Advertising Signs: An Open Letter to His Excellency Mussolini (1927); Manifesto of Aeropainting (1929).…”
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