Alex Keller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3768801 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alex Keller |
| NOMBRES | Alex |
| APELLIDO | Keller |
| FIRMA | KELLER A |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (review)
Reviewed by: Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature Alex Keller (bio) Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature. By Jessica Wolfe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi+305. $65. As so much of our history of technology is told from the viewpoint of producers or users, it is certainly worthwhile to look at these developments as they were seen by onlookers. Jessica Wolfe seeks to show how concepts derived from contempora…
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti
Fortune is a River
Reviewed by: Fortune Is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History * Alex Keller (bio) Fortune Is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History. By Roger D. Masters. New York: The Free Press, 1998. Pp. 278; illustrations, notes/references, bibliography, index. $24. Roger Masters’s picturesque title draws us in…
Labour, Science, and Technology in France, 1500-1620 . Henry Heller
Literature and Technology
Paradise Restored
136 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Feudal scientists operated in the Hellenic mode, usually supported by great trading cities or the church. At this juncture Dorn separates science from technology, with science linked to philosophy and theory, technology to goals. In this respect technology owed much to magic, but it was gunpowder that unleashed European technology by making goals attainable. Technol ogists were pressed into the service of …
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution
Paradise Restored
Harvesting the Air
Harvesting the Air
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 153 This is hardly what we expect in books on culture, but it becomes less surprising when one finds that the book is dedicated to Joseph Need ham, and when Dieter Kuhn indicates that he is a contributor to the Science and Civilisation in China volume dealing with textiles. The technical advances of the Sung, as described here, include improved strains of rice, fertilization, and the introduction of exotic cit…
Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii 1607 by Vittorio Zonca
Book Reviews Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii 1607. By Vittorio Zonca. Edited by Carlo Poni. Milan: Edizioni II Polifilo (via Borgonuovo 2, Milano 20121), 1985. Pp. lviii+115; illustrations, notes. L 120,000.00. Il Polifilo, which has given us so many of the classics of early Italian technology over the years, now presents its facsimile edition ofVittorio Zonca’s new theater of machines. This is the latest ofthe great machine books of the late …
Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii 1607
The "Man and His Work" Center at the Ha'Aretz Museum, Tel Aviv
"The Technological Illustrations of the So-Called "Anonymous of the Hussite Wars
La tecnologia portuaria del Siglo de Oro Espanol
The Cheese and the Worms
The Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitab al Hiyal)
Renaissance Theaters of Machines
Windmills
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
The Third International Symposium on Molinology
The Missing Years of Jacques Besson, Inventor of Machines, Teacher of Mathematics, Distiller of Oils, and Huguenot Pastor
Jacques Besson, author of the Theatre des instrumens mathematiques et mechanique.s, which was the first book of mechanical inventions to be printed, remains a somewhat mysterious figure. Such brief notes on his career as are to be found in encyclopedias and other secondary sources are for the most part erroneous; even the dates of his birth and death are usually subjects for guesses, as is the date of his principal book. This work, his main achie…
Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance by William Barclay Parsons (review)
TECHNOI.OGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 337 Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance. By William Barclay Par sons. Introduction to reprint edition by Robert S. Woodbury. Cam bridge Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1968. Pp. xx-j-661; illustrations. $12.50. During the Renaissance, the word “engineer” meant first and fore most a military engineer, and were one of the great engineers of the 16th century to see a book with the above title, written by a disti…
Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution
The Cheese and the Worms
Renaissance Theaters of Machines
The Missing Years of Jacques Besson, Inventor of Machines, Teacher of Mathematics, Distiller of Oils, and Huguenot Pastor
Jacques Besson, author of the Theatre des instrumens mathematiques et mechanique.s, which was the first book of mechanical inventions to be printed, remains a somewhat mysterious figure. Such brief notes on his career as are to be found in encyclopedias and other secondary sources are for the most part erroneous; even the dates of his birth and death are usually subjects for guesses, as is the date of his principal book. This work, his main achie…
Archimedean Hydrostatic Theorems and Salvage Operations in 16th-Century Venice
A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "New" Inventions
Alex Keller, Giovanni Tortelli, A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "New" Inventions: The Article "Horologium" in Giovanni Tortelli's "De Orthographia", Technology and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 345-365
Les Ingenieurs de la Renaissance
The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity by Ludwig Edelstein (review)
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 87 before we move on to its neighbors (and in the case of Hacilar in Asia Minor and Jericho in Palestine this means starting with settlement at the very beginning of the seventh millennium b.c.), but within any given culture each aspect—history, religion, towns, and the rest—is pursued to its conclusion before the next is taken up. Other features of the book do not help matters. The text is illustrated entirely…
The Craftsmen of Tula
608 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE form and direction to the entire colonial enterprise. Mining is seen as the “forge” of Spanish America, the motive force behind colonial urbaniza tion and the prime determinant of the communications network. Prieto rectifies the traditional view that mining was an impediment to agricul tural exploitation, by pointing out that profits made from mining were often invested in agriculture and stockbreeding. I…
Le Machine
Book Reviews Le Machine: Bollettino deWIstituto Italiano per la Storia della Tecnica. Edited by G. Polvani. Vol. I. Florence: G. Barbera, 1967. Pp. 61. L. 700 per number, L. 5,000 per year’s subscription with membership of Institute. As the editor of the new Italian journal for the history of technology observes, periodicals in this field are still to be counted on the fingers of one hand. So it is very pleasant to welcome a new recruit to these …
Le Machine
The Craftsmen of Tula
The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "New" Inventions
A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "New” Inventions: The Article ’Horologium” in Giovanni Tortelli’s De Orthographia ALEX KELLER Lists of inventions are often adduced in the later 16th and 17th cen turies to demonstrate that the arts do progress, and that the men of that time enjoyed many practical advantages which the ancients had lacked and from lack of which they had suffered. Although it was only in the last years of the 16th century that this …
A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "New" Inventions
Alex Keller, Giovanni Tortelli, A Renaissance Humanist Looks at "New" Inventions: The Article "Horologium" in Giovanni Tortelli's "De Orthographia", Technology and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 345-365
Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance by William Barclay Parsons (review)
TECHNOI.OGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 337 Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance. By William Barclay Par sons. Introduction to reprint edition by Robert S. Woodbury. Cam bridge Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1968. Pp. xx-j-661; illustrations. $12.50. During the Renaissance, the word “engineer” meant first and fore most a military engineer, and were one of the great engineers of the 16th century to see a book with the above title, written by a disti…
Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance
Archimedean Hydrostatic Theorems and Salvage Operations in 16th-Century Venice
The Missing Years of Jacques Besson, Inventor of Machines, Teacher of Mathematics, Distiller of Oils, and Huguenot Pastor
Jacques Besson, author of the Theatre des instrumens mathematiques et mechanique.s, which was the first book of mechanical inventions to be printed, remains a somewhat mysterious figure. Such brief notes on his career as are to be found in encyclopedias and other secondary sources are for the most part erroneous; even the dates of his birth and death are usually subjects for guesses, as is the date of his principal book. This work, his main achie…
The Third International Symposium on Molinology
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Windmills
Renaissance Theaters of Machines
The Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitab al Hiyal)
The Cheese and the Worms
"The Technological Illustrations of the So-Called "Anonymous of the Hussite Wars
La tecnologia portuaria del Siglo de Oro Espanol
The "Man and His Work" Center at the Ha'Aretz Museum, Tel Aviv
Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii 1607 by Vittorio Zonca
Book Reviews Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii 1607. By Vittorio Zonca. Edited by Carlo Poni. Milan: Edizioni II Polifilo (via Borgonuovo 2, Milano 20121), 1985. Pp. lviii+115; illustrations, notes. L 120,000.00. Il Polifilo, which has given us so many of the classics of early Italian technology over the years, now presents its facsimile edition ofVittorio Zonca’s new theater of machines. This is the latest ofthe great machine books of the late …
Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii 1607
Harvesting the Air
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