A crooked path

• Autores: Pamela O. Long
• Localización: Technology and Culture, ISSN-e 1097-3729, Vol. 56, Nº. 2 (Supp. Special Issue: (Auto)Mobility, Accidents, and Danger), 2015, págs. 498-507
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a speech delivered after accepting the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, Long shares an intellectual autobiographical account of her work as a historian. She tells that she started out as an intellectual historian working on the Vitruvian tradition. For her dissertation and in the years immediately following, she worked extensively on sixteenth-century Vitruvian commentaries. What interested her most about Vitruvius was his insistence that architecture should consist of both ratiocinatio and fabrica, which she would translate as reasoning and construction