Author: Celina Fox
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN: 9780300160420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels, which form the four central themes of this engrossing book, provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, for validation and authorization, and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.
The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Celina Fox
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN: 9780300160420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels, which form the four central themes of this engrossing book, provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, for validation and authorization, and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN: 9780300160420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels, which form the four central themes of this engrossing book, provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, for validation and authorization, and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Half hours of English history, selected and illustr. by C. Knight
Author: English history
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Incredible Book of Vatican Facts and Papal Curiosities
Author: Nino Lo Bello
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517220832
Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Which pope was a speed demon? What is the pope's salary? Here is a non-sacred treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and little-known tidbits about the Vatican and the popes, not only for the 700 million Catholics in the world but also for people of other faiths. Includes a time-line of significant dates in Church history, and a glossary of Vatican terms.
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517220832
Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Which pope was a speed demon? What is the pope's salary? Here is a non-sacred treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and little-known tidbits about the Vatican and the popes, not only for the 700 million Catholics in the world but also for people of other faiths. Includes a time-line of significant dates in Church history, and a glossary of Vatican terms.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Pictorial Half-hours of London Topography
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Company Curiosities
Author: Arthur MacGregor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789140033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for their scientific, aesthetic or cultural value. An array of administrators, soldiers, surveyors spent much of their lives attempting to inventory and to comprehend India's vast country, its teeming populations and its myriad rituals and wildlife: nearly forty species of mammals and over 120 species of birds were discovered in the Katmandu valley alone; astonishing wall paintings from the fifth-century were unearthed in caves at Ajanta; and spectacular fossil fauna arrived from the Siwalik Hills. Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects - craft materials, paintings and sculptures, weapons, costumes, jewels and ornaments - that established the look and the feel of India for those who had never ventured abroad. Arthur MacGregor tells the stories behind the remarkable discoveries and collections, and those responsible for them, and their impact on natural science, commerce and industry, and personal taste.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789140033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for their scientific, aesthetic or cultural value. An array of administrators, soldiers, surveyors spent much of their lives attempting to inventory and to comprehend India's vast country, its teeming populations and its myriad rituals and wildlife: nearly forty species of mammals and over 120 species of birds were discovered in the Katmandu valley alone; astonishing wall paintings from the fifth-century were unearthed in caves at Ajanta; and spectacular fossil fauna arrived from the Siwalik Hills. Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects - craft materials, paintings and sculptures, weapons, costumes, jewels and ornaments - that established the look and the feel of India for those who had never ventured abroad. Arthur MacGregor tells the stories behind the remarkable discoveries and collections, and those responsible for them, and their impact on natural science, commerce and industry, and personal taste.
Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry
Author: Philip A. Sykas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000581381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and recycling.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000581381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and recycling.
Journal
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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