BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 THE RENAISSANCE MACHINE AND ITS DISCONTENTS; 2 PHILOSOPHY, POWER, AND POLITICS IN RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGY; 3 THE TURN OF THE SCREW: Machines, books, and bodies; 4 WOMEN AND WHEELS: Gender and the machine in the Renaissance; 5 'NATURE WROUGHT': Artifice, illusion, and magical mechanics; 6 REASONING ENGINES: The instrumental imagination in the seventeenth century; 7 MILTON AND THE ENGINE; 8 THE MACHINE STOPS; NOTES; INDEX
Summary
Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, Engines of the Imagination traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance