Words and pictures; engineers’ treatises from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. University outreach course (2016)

Courses

A course entitled La palabra y la imagen. Tratados de ingeniería entre los siglos XVI y XVIII [Words and pictures; engineers’ treatises from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries], organised by the Spanish National Distance University (UNED) and sponsored by Fundación Juanelo Turriano, will be held at UNED’s associate facility in Segovia on 11 to 13 November.

With the printing press, knowledge formerly transmitted via manuscripts could be disseminated in books and treatises that drove the globalisation of engineering. As illustrations were imperative in such works, this course focuses on what sixteenth to eighteenth century engineers wrote but also on their visual representations of cities, fortifications, barracks, bridges and vessels, most of which were commissioned from the king’s engineers. An understanding of how knowledge was coded and transmitted provides insight into the guidelines along which modern engineering evolved.

Course management: Alicia Cámara Muñoz and Bernardo Revuelta Pol

Programme:

Friday 11 November:
La ciudad en los tratados de ingeniería del Renacimiento. Alicia Cámara Muñoz. Professor and Head of Art History Department, UNED.

Los teatros de máquinas. Ciencia y maravilla, la imagen del ingenio. Consuelo Gómez López. Tenured professor of Art History, UNED

Saturday, 12 November:
La construcción naval en libros y leyes. Bernardo Revuelta Pol. Architect, Fundación Juanelo Turriano Director

Los tratados en la formación de los ingenieros militares del siglo XVII. Mariano Esteban Piñeiro. Academy of History of Portugal and History of Science and Engineering Group. Instituto de Historia Simancas

Escuela de Palas (Milán 1693); debate, eclecticismo y heterodoxia en la tratadística española de Fortificación  Fernando Cobos Guerra. Architect, member of ICOMOS/ICOFORT International Committee

Libros para la ingeniería de las Luces. De Sánchez Taramas a Benito Bails. Daniel Crespo Delgado. Fundación Juanelo Turriano and professor with the Complutense University of Madrid

Sunday, 13 November:
Guided tour of Segovia’s Royal Mint Museum. José María Izaga Reiner. Industrial engineer

Programme and information on online registration (In Spanish)

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