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Machines and SignsThe Eighteenth Century

Machines and Signs: The Eighteenth Century [The eighteenth century was dominated, from the point of view of technical drawing, by some important events, such as the activity of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (the father of Descriptive Geometry), the first steps of industry and the utilization of orthographic projections, the first encyclopedic books and the growing use of drawing as a documentary tool for use by scientists.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Machines and SignsThe Eighteenth Century

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 17)
Rovida, Edoardo
Machines and Signs — Oct 9, 2012
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
ISBN
978-94-007-5406-5
Pages
71 –118
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-5407-2_5
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Abstract

[The eighteenth century was dominated, from the point of view of technical drawing, by some important events, such as the activity of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (the father of Descriptive Geometry), the first steps of industry and the utilization of orthographic projections, the first encyclopedic books and the growing use of drawing as a documentary tool for use by scientists.]

Published: Oct 9, 2012

Keywords: Documentary Tools; Orthographic Projection; Encyclopedic Book; Projective Geometry; Technical Drawings

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