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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Janello Torriani, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Juanelo
Turriano (Cremona, Italy ca. 1500 - Toledo, Spain 1585), is the
greatest among Renaissance inventors and constructors of machines.
Contemporary literates and mathematicians celebrated Janello
Torriani and his creations in their writings. It is striking how
such fame turned into nearly complete oblivion, leaving only a few
clues of a blurred and distorted memory dispersed here and there.
This book wishes to show the central role that artisans formed in
the Vitruvian tradition played in demonstrating through practical
mathematics an increasing and positive control over Nature, a step
rooted in humanist culture and foundational for the understanding
of those historical processes known as the Scientific and the
Industrial Revolutions.
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