Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors

Author: Ann Evory

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 9780810300385

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Contains alphabetically arranged profiles of published contemporary authors of non-technical works from around the world, each with personal data, addresses, career history, and a list of writings, and in some cases, a list of works in progress, sidelights, and avocational interests; up-to-date through mid-1978.

Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire
Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire

Author: Cristiano Zanetti

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9004320911

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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.