Making knowledge in early modern Europe : practices, objects, and texts, 1400-1800 / edited by Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Pamela H., 1957-

Schmidt, Benjamin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

xi, 360 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: Knowledge and Its Making in Early Modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith, Benjamin Schmidt 1

Making Knowledge from the Margins

1 Women Engineers and the Culture of the Pyrenees: Indigenous Knowledge and Engineering in Seventeenth-Century France / Chandra Mukerji 19

2 Visual Representation as Instructional Text: Jan van Eyck and The Ghent Altarpiece / Linda Seidel 45

3 Explosive Affinities: Pyrotechnic Knowledge in Early Modern Europe / Simon Werrett 68

4 Naming and Knowing: The Global Politics of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Nomenclatures / Londa Schiebinger 90

Practices of Reading and Writing

5 Novel Knowledge: Innovation in Dutch Literature and Society of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Herman Pleij 109

6 Watches, Diary Writing, and the Search for Self-Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century / Rudolf Dekker 127

7 The Moral of the Story: Children's Reading and the Catechism of Nature around 1800 / Arianne Baggerman 143

8 Method as Knowledge: Scribal Theology, Protestantism, and the Reinvention of Shorthand in Sixteenth-Century England / Lori Anne Ferrell 163

9 Boyle's Essay: Genre and the Making of Early Modern Knowledge / Scott Black 178

The Reform of Knowledge

10 Making Sense of Medical Collections in Early Modern Holland: The Uses of Wonder / Claudia Swan 199

11 In Search of True Knowledge: Ole Worm (1588-1654) and the New Philosophy / Ole Peter Grell 214

12 Stone Gods and Counter-Reformation Knowledges / Carina L. Johnson 233

13 Temple and Tabernacle: The Place of Religion in Early Modern England / Jonathan Sheehan 248

14 The Fiscal Logic of Enlightened German Science / Andre wakefield 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226763286

9780226763293

0226763285

0226763293

OCLC:

154689807

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