Author Description

The Renaissance Machine And Its Discontents -- The World Of Techne -- A Word Run Upon Wheels: The Sound Of Renaissance -- Windmills And Watermills -- Shame -- Philosophy, Power, And Politics In Renaissance Technology -- The Vital Humour Of The Terrestrial Machine -- A Water-driven World -- Watching Machines With Montaigne -- Movement And The Philosophy Of Machines -- Machines And Social Power -- The Renaissance Megamachine: Rome 1585-6 -- The Turn Of The Screw: Machines, Books, And Bodies -- Of Alientation And Pins -- What Is't O'clock?: Clock Time And Social Status -- Print And Mechanical Culture -- The Birth Of The Renaissance Machine -- Gregorius Agricola And The Invention Of Mechanical Labour -- The Syntax Of The Machine -- The Mechanical World Of Agostino Ramelli -- The Body Of The Machine -- Texual Engines -- Perpetual Motions -- Women And Wheels: Gender And The Machine In The Renaissance -- Rosie The Riveter -- The Spinners -- Wheels -- Rotary Punishment -- The Wheel Of Fortune -- A Thing Made For Alexander -- Nature Wrought: Artifice, Illusion, And Magical Mechanics -- Metallic Fantasies -- Fabricating Nature -- Mechanical Illusions -- Bodies Without Souls -- Mechanical Women -- Reasoning Engines: The Instrumental Imagination In The Seventeenth Century -- Buying An Instrument -- Francis Bacon And The Reform Of Mechanism -- Seeing With Machines -- Robert Hooke's Artificial Bodies -- The Second Adam -- Clockwork Reason -- The Caclulating Machine -- Mechanical Theology -- Political Machines -- Sex Machines -- The Semi-omnipotent Engine -- The Idea Of The Engine -- Milton And Industry -- Milton And The Machine -- The Machine Stops -- The Interrupted Idyll Of Andrew Marvell -- The Happy Return -- Conclusion: The Machine Stops. Jonathan Sawday. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [319]-383) And Index.