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Skira, 2014. Hardcover. New/New. New oversized (9.8 x 11.3 inches) hardcover in new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes essays, photos, and art prints. 320 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Leonardo da Vinci claimed that painting, in his age often still confined among the mechanical arts, belonged to the culture of the "erudite", to high scientific and humanistic culture, that is, to the liberal arts. But he also proudly affirmed for himself the higher dignity of the inventor, contrasting it with the figure of the rhetoricians and commentators of ancient texts, thus helping to shape a new intellectual consciousness, interwoven with the still uncertain formation of the knowledge and identity of the engineer. This volume sets out to grasp the historic significance of Leonardo's work as a "mechanic", reconstructing its involvement in certain dynamics - played out between the time of Piero della Francesca and the early Galilei, of the…
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Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 320, illustrated. New copy. The extraordinary technologic innovations and revolutionary machines from the collection of the Leonardo Museum in Vinci. This beautifully illustrated volume discovers the multiple interests of Leonardo the technologist, the architect, the man of science and, more generally, the history of Renaissance techniques.
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