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Title Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention / edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.
Contents Introduction : the future is now : reflections on art, science, futurity / Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Moon shot: from renaissance imagination to modern reality / Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Machines in the garden / Jessica Riskin -- Inventing interfaces : Camillo's memory theater and the renaissance of human-computer interaction / Peter Matussek -- Futurities, empire, and censorship: Cervantes in conversation with Ovid and Orwell / Frederick A. de Armas -- Anticipating the future : Leonardo's unpublished anatomical and mathematical observations / Morteza Gharib, Francis C. Wells, with Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Medicine as a hunt : searching for the secrets of the new world / William Eamon -- Half-life of blue / Charlene Villaseñor Black -- "Ingenuity' and artists' ways of knowing / Claire Farago.
Summary "Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio "Delminio" Camillo (1480-1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression"--Provided by publisher.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Art and science -- Forecasting.
Art and science.
Forecasting.
Art and science -- Europe -- 16th century.
Europe.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Art and science -- Europe -- 15th century.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Future in art.
Future in art.
Chronological Term 1400-1599
Genre/Form Essays.
Essays.
Electronic books.
Added Author Villaseñor Black, Charlene, 1962- editor.
Alvarez, Mari-Tere, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 0520296982
ISBN 9780520969513 (EPUB, PDF)
0520969510 (EPUB, PDF)
9780520296985 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0520296982 (paperback)