During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both
liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of
work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the
processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary
sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four
principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing,
model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels,
which form the four central themes of this engrossing book,
provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for
explanation and classification, for validation and authorization,
and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the
public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the
Enlightenment.
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