Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire - A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Nuncius Series, 2
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Cristiano Zanetti
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	450
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-32089-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Promotions
LSN:	90-04-32089-X
Barcode:	9789004320895

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