In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces ...

This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participated in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Harnessing the discipline of mechanics to their literary and ...

They were only challenged and improved upon when a new generation of Renaissance doctors were allowed to dissect human bodies. Andreas Vesalius, 1514 - 1564, was the author of influential anatomy ...