Two-Handed Engine
Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher : Centipede Press
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9780971205130
Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher : Centipede Press
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9780971205130
Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher :
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2005*
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9780739468104
Author : Elwin Volk
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Claud A. Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1960
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Claud Adelbert Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Marie J. Bradford
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Author : S.Viswanathan
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9788176257374
Author : Arthur S. P. Woodhouse
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN : 9780231088817
Author : Jonathan Sawday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1134267924
At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original state of innocence or a sign of human progress and mastery over the natural world? In his characteristically lucid and captivating style, Jonathan Sawday investigates these questions and more by engaging with the poetry, philosophy, art, and engineering of the period to find the lost world of the machine in the pre-industrial culture of the European Renaissance. The aesthetic and intellectual dimension of these machines appealed to familiar figures such as Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Leonardo da Vinci as well as to a host of lesser known writers and artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This intellectual engagement with machines in the European Renaissance gave rise to new attitudes towards gender, work and labour, and even fostered the new sciences of artificial life and reason which would be pursued by figures such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz in the seventeenth century. Writers, philosophers and artists had mixed and often conflicting reactions to technology, reflecting a paradoxical attitude between modern progress and traditional values. Underpinning the enthusiastic creation of a machine-driven world, then, were stories of loss and catastrophe. These contradictory attitudes are part of the legacy of the European Renaissance, just as much as the plays of Shakespeare or the poetry of John Milton. And this historical legacy helps to explain many of our own attitudes towards the technology that surrounds us, sustains us, and sometimes perplexes us in the modern world.
Author : Brent H. Van Arsdell
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Stirling engines
ISBN :