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