Pamela H. Smith is professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire and coeditor of Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe.
发表于2024-11-22
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In "The Body of the Artisan", Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source: artists and artisans. Goldsmiths, locksmiths, carpenters, and painters were all sought after by early scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials, as well as their ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe, and including nearly 200 images of artisans' objects alongside their writings, "The Body of the Artisan" convincingly demonstrates that artisans viewed knowledge as throughly rooted in matter and nature. "The Body of the Artisan" provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, recovering a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution - an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world, and science too.
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评分Redefining naturalism as an artisanal engagement with nature through bodily experience to gain practical knowledge, before such ideal was eclipsed by Enlightenment elision of body. A nicely argued book, Part II on Paracelsus is esp strong, loved the idea of a guided tour into Sylvius' house.
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评分Redefining naturalism as an artisanal engagement with nature through bodily experience to gain practical knowledge, before such ideal was eclipsed by Enlightenment elision of body. A nicely argued book, Part II on Paracelsus is esp strong, loved the idea of a guided tour into Sylvius' house.
评分Redefining naturalism as an artisanal engagement with nature through bodily experience to gain practical knowledge, before such ideal was eclipsed by Enlightenment elision of body. A nicely argued book, Part II on Paracelsus is esp strong, loved the idea of a guided tour into Sylvius' house.
The Body of the Artisan 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书