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Book SynopsisThe arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms. This title argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies and publications. It also examines the status of the mechanical arts from the medieval period to the seventeenth century.
Trade Review“Fox’s study of the 18th century is thorough and impressive." — Choice
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"[A] remarkable book . . . an original account of the representation of the mechanical arts by both 'liberal' and 'mechanical' artists that is of extraodinary scope and depth. Fox makes an important contribution to literature in the history of science and technology that highlights the interaction between artisans and scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. . . . Such a short review cannot do justice to the richness of the visual and verbal feast Fox sets before the reader, studded as it is with fascinating nuggets of information and visual discoveries."—Pamela H. Smith,
Technology and Culture -- Pamela H. Smith * Technology and Culture *
Winner of the 2011 Historians of British Art Books Prize in the Pre-1800 category -- Art Books Prize * Historians of British Art *
