'The Most Expert in Europe': Patents and Innovation in the Building Trades in the Early Dutch Republic (1580−1650)

Famous early modern engineering feats in architecture, such as Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence, have traditionally been presented in historiography as the accomplishments of individual ‘authorial’ figures. Yet, for many other innovative building technologies of the early modern period, the authorshi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merlijn Hurx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2019-06-01
Series:Architectural Histories
Online Access:https://journal.eahn.org/articles/337