| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Intersections, yearbook for early modern studies, 1568-1181 ; v. 11 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 11
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Notes on Authors ix -- List of Illustrations xvii -- Introduction xxi -- Claus Zittel -- Part I -- Beginnings -- "Industrious Observations, Grounded Conclusions, and -- Pro?table Inventions and Discoveries; the Best State of -- That Province": Technology and Culture during Francis -- Bacon's Stay in France 3 -- Luisa Dolza -- Francis Bacon's Scientia Operativa, The Tradition of the Workshops, and The Secrets of Nature -- 21 -- Jurgen Klein -- Technical Knowledge and the Advancement of Learning: Some Questions about 'Perfectibility' -- and 'Invention' 51 -- Romano Nanni -- The Weatherglass and its Observers in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 67 -- Arianna Borrelli -- Part Ii -- Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments And Utopias -- The Role of Mechanics in Francis Bacon's 'Great Instauration' -- 133 -- Sophie Weeks -- zittelf1i-xxxii.indd v 7/17/2008 8:09:07 PM -- vi -- contents -- Bacon's Brotherhood and its Classical Sources: Producing -- and Communicating Knowledge in the Project of Great -- Instauration -- Dana -- Jalobeanu -- 19 -- 7 -- The Whale under the Microscope: Technology and -- Objectivity in Two Renaissance Utopias -- Todd Andrew Borlik -- 23 -- 1 -- Part Iii -- Metaphoric Models -- The Role of Metaphors in William Harvey's -- Thought Jarmo Pulkkinen -- .. -- 25 -- 3 -- Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological -- Foundation of Technological Metaphor in the Natural -- Philosophy of Rene Descartes -- Andres -- Vaccari -- 28 -- 7 -- Descartes as -- Bricoleur Claus -- Zittel -- 33 -- 7 -- Part Iv -- Bacon'S Legacy: The Impact For The Arts -- And Sciences -- The Poet and the Philosopher: Francis Bacon and Georg -- Philipp Harsdorffer -- Berthold Heinecke -- 37 -- 5 -- Formal Causes and Mechanical Causes: The Analogy of -- the Musical Instrument in Late Seventeenth-Century -- Natural Philosophy -- Benjamin -- Wardhaugh -- 41 -- 1 -- contents -- vii -- The Modern Wonder and its Enemies: Courtly Innovations -- in the Spanish Renaissance -- Daniel Damler -- 42 -- 7 -- The Gap between Theory and Practice: Hydrodynamical -- and Hydraulical Utopias in the 18th Century -- Moritz Epple -- 45 -- 7 -- Sentimental Hydraulics: Utopia and Technology in -- 18th-Century France -- Thomas -- Brandstetter -- 49 -- 5 -- History Redoubled: The Synthesis of Facts in Linnaean -- Natural History -- Staffan -- Muller-Wille -- 51 -- 3 -- Rescue Attempts: Scienti?c Images and the Mysteries of -- Power in the Era of Louis XIV -- Pablo Schneider -- 53 -- 9 -- Index -- Nominum -- 573 |
| Summary |
"The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and technical culture of the Early Modern era and to draw systematic conclusions for the writing of Early Modern history of science.The divisive transformation of humanist scholarly culture, the Scholastic school philosophy, as well as magic in the form of a philosophy of practice is always associated with the work of Francis Bacon. All of these essays in this volume reflect the close interaction between technical models and knowledge production in natural philosophy, natural history and epistemology. It becomes clear that the technological developments of the Early Modern era cannot be adequately depicted in the form of a pure history of technology but rather only as part of a broader, cultural history of the sciences."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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Science -- History -- 17th century.
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Technology -- History -- 17th century.
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Technology -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Zittel, Claus.
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Brill Academic Publishers.
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| LC no. |
2008032054 |
| ISBN |
9004170502 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9789004170506 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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