Title The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution / Pamela H. Smith

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents Flanders -- Artisanal world -- South German cities -- Artisanal epistemology -- Body of the artisan -- Artisanship, alchemy, and a vernacular science of matter -- Dutch republic -- Legacy of Paracelsus: practitioners and new philosophers -- Institutionalization of the new philosophy -- Conclusion: toward a history of vernacular science Summary "Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source - artists and artisans." "From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans objects and their writings. Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. with nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art craft and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution - an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-346) and index Notes Print version record Subject Art and science -- History -- 16th century Art and science -- History -- 17th century SCIENCE -- History. Art and science -- History -- 16th century. Art and science -- History -- 17th century. Art and science Naturwissenschaften Wissenschaft Kunst Kunstenaars. Wetenschap. Wetenschapsgeschiedenis (wetenschap) Europa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226764269 0226764265 0226763994 9780226763996

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