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Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- anno 500-1499 --- Architecture --- History of Medicine, Medieval --- Science --- Technology --- Architecture, Medieval --- Science, Medieval --- Architecture médiévale --- Sciences médiévales --- history --- History --- History, Medieval. --- 165.9 --- 091:5/6 --- Medieval science --- Middle Ages --- History of Medicine, Renaissance --- Medicine, Medieval History --- Medicine, Renaissance --- Medieval History (Medicine) --- Renaissance Medicine --- Medieval History --- Histories, Medieval (Medicine) --- History Medicine, Medieval --- History, Medieval (Medicine) --- Medieval Histories (Medicine) --- Medieval History Medicine --- history. --- Geschiedenis van de wetenschappelijke ontwikkeling en kennis --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Exacte en toegepaste wetenschappen --- Architecture, Medieval. --- Science, Medieval. --- 091:5/6 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Exacte en toegepaste wetenschappen --- 165.9 Geschiedenis der kennis. Ontwikkeling van de mythologie tot wetenschap --- 165.9 Geschiedenis van de wetenschappelijke ontwikkeling en kennis --- Geschiedenis der kennis. Ontwikkeling van de mythologie tot wetenschap --- Architecture as Topic --- Architecture médiévale --- Sciences médiévales --- History, Medieval --- Science - history --- Technology - history

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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome’s structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period—most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.

Environmental planning --- History of civilization --- History of Italy --- anno 1500-1599 --- Rome --- Urban renewal --- Municipal engineering --- Civic improvement --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Rénovation urbaine --- Génie urbain --- Villes --- Histoire --- Aménagement et assainissement --- Rome (Italie) --- Urban renewal - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century --- Municipal engineering - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century --- Civic improvement - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century --- Rome (Italy) - History - 16th century

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"This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical revision of the "Zilsel thesis," an influential etiological narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in bringing about the "Scientific Revolution." Artisan/Practitioners reassesses the issue of artisanal influence from three different perspectives: the perceived relationships between art and nature; the Vitruvian architectural tradition with its appreciation of both theory and practice; and the development of "trading zones"--arenas in which artisans and learned men communicated in substantive ways. These complex social and intellectual developments, the book argues, underlay the development of the empirical sciences. This volume provides new discussion and synthesis of a theory that encompasses broad developments in European history and study of the natural world. It will be a valuable resource for college-level teaching, and for scholars and others interested in the history of science, late medieval and early modern European history, and the Scientific Revolution"-- "Explores the influence of craftsmen and practitioners such as farmers and navigators in the development of the new sciences during the period in the title"--

Science, Medieval. --- Science --- History. --- Sociology of knowledge --- History of Europe --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599

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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects-sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome's structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period-most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.

Urban renewal --- Municipal engineering --- Civic improvement --- History --- History --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- History --- Rome. --- Tiber River. --- aqueducts. --- engineering. --- flood control. --- infrastructure. --- maps. --- obelisks. --- sewers. --- streets.

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In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contemporary shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, and astrological ideas. This manuscript, "lost," or at least in unknown hands for over 400 years, has never been published or translated in its entirety until now. In volume 3, nine experts, including the editors, discuss the manuscript, its historical context, and its scholarly importance. Their essays examine the Venetian maritime world of the fifteenth century, Michael's life, the discovery of the manuscript, the mathematics in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive calendrical material.

Naval art and science --- Navigation --- Mathematics --- Astrology --- Calendars --- Shipbuilding --- Michael, --- Mss maritimes --- Mss Michalli da Ruodo --- 091.07 --- 091 DA RODI, MICHELE --- 091:656.6 --- Handschriften: facsimile's --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--DA RODI, MICHELEY --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Transport by water --- 091:656.6 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Transport by water --- 091.07 Handschriften: facsimile's --- Art et science navals. --- Construction navale. --- Astrologie. --- Early works to 1800. --- Early works to 1800 --- Michalli da Ruodo, --- Naval art and science - Early works to 1800 --- Navigation - Early works to 1800 --- Mathematics - Early works to 1800 --- Astrology - Early works to 1800 --- Calendars - Italy - Early works to 1800 --- Shipbuilding - Early works to 1800 --- Michael, - of Rhodes, - -1445