Engines of the Imagination - Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine Sawday Jonathan Paperback
Engines of the Imagination - Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine Sawday Jonathan Paperback At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness…
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Engines of the Imagination - Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine Sawday Jonathan Paperback
At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? 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? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time?
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.