Descriptive geometry and Mechanism science from Antiquity to the 17th Century. An Introduction

Focus of this brief introduction is the common birth and parallel destiny of Descriptive Geometry and Mechanism Science. This argument will showed considering some scientists from the chosen period, who can be considered of common interest between the two disciplines, devoting a chapter to each of them. And especially in this introductory chapter we will discuss four major personalities, one for the Antiquity (Vitruvius), one for the Middle Ages (Villard de Honnecourt), one the Renaissance (Filippo Brunelleschi), and finally one for the Baroque period (Giovanni Branca).