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Concept

Technology and civilization

Images

  • A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    What technology wants / Kevin Kelly.

    Kelly, Kevin, 1952- | Date: 2010
    • Books

    Hommes et techniques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance / Marie-Claire Amouretti, Georges Comet.

    Amouretti, Marie-Claire. | Date: [1993], ©1993
    • Books

    The myth of the machine : technics and human development / Lewis Mumford.

    Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990. | Date: [1967], ©1967
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.

    | Date: [1663] | Reference: 18171i
    • Journals

    History and technology.

    | Date: 1983-
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