1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396685603316

Autore

Charles, King of Spain, <1661-1700.>

Titolo

The last will and codicil of Charles II, King of Spain, made the 2d of October, 1700 [[electronic resource] ] : with the letters that have past betwixt the Most Christian King and the Regency of Spain on that subject / / translated at large from the authentick copy, printed at Paris in Spanish and French by the French King's authority

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for H. Rhodes [and 2 others], 1700

Descrizione fisica

32 p

Soggetti

Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Testamento cerrado, que en dos de Octubre de mil y setecientos, y del codicilo, que en cinco del mismo mes, y año hizo la magestad del Señor Rey D. Carlos II.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962936003321

Autore

Henderson Kathryn

Titolo

On line and on paper : visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering / / Kathryn Henderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1999

ISBN

0-262-27525-2

0-585-08739-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Inside technology

Disciplina

620/.0042/0285

Soggetti

Engineering design

Computer graphics

Visual communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

On Line and On Paper -- Contents -- Preface -- On Line and On Paper -- Introduction -- Coding and Claiming: Codification and the Rise of Engineering as a Profession -- The Visual Culture of Engineers: Drawing, Seeing, and Standardizing Perception -- The Yellow Brick Road to Production: Development of a Turbine Engine Package -- The Political Career of a Prototype: Development of a Precision Medical Instrument -- Computer Graphics in Design Engineering: How and Why Changes in Visual Culture Cause Restructuring -- Mixed- Use Practices: Combining the Electronic World and the Paper World -- The Aura of ''High Tech'' in a World of Messy Practice: Standardization, Mystification, and Glamour -- The Power of Visual Representation: Mixed Practices, Multivisual Competencies, and Meta- Indexicals -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political support, and power.



Henderson's analysis of the collective nature of knowledge in technical design work is based on her participant observation of practices in two industrial settings. In one she follows the evolution of a turbine engine package from design to production, and in the other she examines the development of an innovative surgical tool. In both cases she describes the messy realities of design practice, including the mixed use of the worlds of paper and computer graphics. One of the goals of the book is to lay a practice-informed groundwork for the creation of more usable computer tools. Henderson also explores the relationship between the historical development of engineering as a profession and the standardization of engineering knowledge, and then addresses the question: Just what is high technology, and how does its affect the extent to which people will allow their working habits to be disrupted and restructured? Finally, to help explain why visual representations are so powerful, Henderson develops the concept of "metaindexicality"--the ability of a visual representation, used interactively, to combine many diverse levels of knowledge and thus to serve as a meeting ground (and sometimes battleground) for many types of workers.