The Italian Renaissance of Machines Islam 2 Arithmetic 107

2 Arithmetic 107

When the hands on their watches start to spin backwards

Despite thinking they’ve thwarted the prophecy

is unsettled by memories resurrected at Mila's wedding

now as ever before

The Italian Renaissance of Machines Islam 2 Arithmetic 107The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine. When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no less impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides