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Janello Torriani, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Juanelo Turriano (Cremona, Italy circa 1500 – Toledo, Spain 1585), is the greatest among Renaissance inventors and constructors of machines. Contemporary literates and mathematicians celebrated Janello Torriani and his creations in their writings. It is striking how such fame turned into nearly complete oblivion, leaving only a few clues of a blurred and distorted memory dispersed here and there. This book wishes to show the central role that artisans formed in the Vitruvian tradition played in demonstrating through practical mathematics an increasing and positive control over Nature, a step rooted in humanist culture and foundational for the understanding of those historical processes known as the Scientific and the Industrial Revolutions.

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In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop mysterious, often fatal illnesses that they traced to conditions in the workplace. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial

Watch dial painters --- Radium paint --- Consumers' leagues --- Industrial hygiene --- Employees --- Health of workers --- Hygiene, Industrial --- Industrial health engineering --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Occupations --- Work environment --- Environmental health --- Industrial management --- Medicine, Industrial --- Consumer cooperatives --- Radioactive luminous compound --- Mesothorium --- Dial painters, Watch --- Dialpainters --- Radium dial painters --- Clock and watch makers --- Painters, Industrial --- Diseases --- History. --- Toxicology. --- History --- Health and hygiene --- Health aspects