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The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
- Dibner institute studies in the history of science and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Europe--History.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy, European--History.
- Philosophy, European.
- Science, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics.
- Contents:
- 10 Spinoza on the Natural and the Artificial11 Eighteenth-Century Wetware; 12 Overtaking Nature? The Changing Scope of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century; 13 Reconfiguring Nature through Syntheses: From Plastics to Biomimetics; 14 Concluding Comments; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612099113
- 9780262309233
- 0262309238
- 9781282099111
- 1282099116
- 9780262268172
- 0262268175
- 9781435606005
- 1435606000
- OCLC:
- 181029068
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