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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philip SteadmanPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9781787359161ISBN 10: 1787359166 Pages: 418 Publication Date: 13 April 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The machine in the theatre 1. Changing the scenes Intermezzo: Moving pictures 2. Theatres of machines Intermezzo: Artificial weather 3. The automata of Hero of Alexandria Part II: The machine in the garden 4. Artificial creatures Intermezzo: Talking heads 5. Water in the air Intermezzo: Surprise soakings 6. Artificial music Part III: A garden and an opera 7. The ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino 8. Mercury and Mars in Parma, 1628 Reprise: Hero as unlikely hero Selct bibliography IndexReviewsUniquely important... should be useful in challenging modern theatrical designers and engineers who are stalled in their creativity... [and] scholars of Renaissance drama... * Pennsylvania Literary Review * Author InformationPhilip Steadman is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at University College London, and author of Vermeer’s Camera (2001). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |