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The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution / Pamela H. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Pamela H., 1957- author.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and science--History--16th century.
- Art and science.
- Art and science--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 367 p. ) ill. (some col.) ;
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-346) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226764269
- 0226764265
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06680 hdl
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