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At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original state of innocence or a sign of human progress and mastery over the natural world? In his characteristically lucid and captivating style, Jonathan Sawday investigates these questions and more by engaging with the poetry, philosophy, art, and engineering of the period to find the lost world of the machine in the pre-industrial culture of the European Renaissance. The aesthetic and intellectual dimension of these machines appealed to familiar figures such as Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Leonardo da Vinci as well as to a host of lesser known writers and artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This intellectual engagement with machines in the European Renaissance gave rise to new attitudes towards gender, work and labour, and even fostered the new sciences of artificial life and reason which would be pursued by figures such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz in the seventeenth century. Writers, philosophers and artists had mixed and often conflicting reactions to technology, reflecting a paradoxical attitude between modern progress and traditional values. Underpinning the enthusiastic creation of a machine-driven world, then, were stories of loss and catastrophe. These contradictory attitudes are part of the legacy of the European Renaissance, just as much as the plays of Shakespeare or the poetry of John Milton. And this historical legacy helps to explain many of our own attitudes towards the technology that surrounds us, sustains us, and sometimes perplexes us in the modern world.
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描绘了文艺复兴时期以来，欧洲人对于机械和机械文化兴起的多重想象。一台一旦开动就无法停止的引擎是机械文化的绝佳写照，所有丰富、矛盾的态度都被绞入其中，最终输出的便是我们今天所见的工业世界。
评分描绘了文艺复兴时期以来，欧洲人对于机械和机械文化兴起的多重想象。一台一旦开动就无法停止的引擎是机械文化的绝佳写照，所有丰富、矛盾的态度都被绞入其中，最终输出的便是我们今天所见的工业世界。
评分描绘了文艺复兴时期以来，欧洲人对于机械和机械文化兴起的多重想象。一台一旦开动就无法停止的引擎是机械文化的绝佳写照，所有丰富、矛盾的态度都被绞入其中，最终输出的便是我们今天所见的工业世界。
评分描绘了文艺复兴时期以来，欧洲人对于机械和机械文化兴起的多重想象。一台一旦开动就无法停止的引擎是机械文化的绝佳写照，所有丰富、矛盾的态度都被绞入其中，最终输出的便是我们今天所见的工业世界。
评分描绘了文艺复兴时期以来，欧洲人对于机械和机械文化兴起的多重想象。一台一旦开动就无法停止的引擎是机械文化的绝佳写照，所有丰富、矛盾的态度都被绞入其中，最终输出的便是我们今天所见的工业世界。
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