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It is significant to observe that, in the present work, we focus on the period of time corresponding to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with some linkages to the first years of the seventeenth century. That significance lies in the sudden discovery and rapid growth of the idea of representation in drawings and illustrations as a mode of communication.
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Rovida, E. (2013). Renaissance. In: Machines and Signs. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5407-2_4
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