Book ID: CBB001181459

Artisan/practitioners and the rise of the new sciences, 1400-1600 (2011)

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Long, Pamela O. (Author)


Oregon State University Press
Pages: 196


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Series:The OSU Press Horning visiting scholars publication series
Physical Details: xii + 196 pp.; ill.
Language: English

This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical revision of the "Zilsel thesis," an influential etiological narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in bringing about the "Scientific Revolution." Artisan/Practitioners reassesses the issue of artisanal influence from three different perspectives: the perceived relationships between art and nature; the Vitruvian architectural tradition with its appreciation of both theory and practice; and the development of "trading zones"--Arenas in which artisans and learned men communicated in substantive ways. These complex social and intellectual developments, the book argues, underlay the development of the empirical sciences. This volume provides new discussion and synthesis of a theory that encompasses broad developments in European history and study of the natural world. It will be a valuable resource for college-level teaching, and for scholars and others interested in the history of science, late medieval and early modern European history, and the Scientific Revolution. (Worldcat)

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Description Contents: Artisanal values and the investigation of nature -- Artisan/practitioners as an issue in the history of science -- Art, nature, and the culture of empiricism -- Artisans, humanists, and the De architectura of Vitruvius -- Trading zones : arenas of production and exchange -- Empirical values in a transitional age.


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Authors & Contributors
Catalano, Agostino
Gatta, Massimo
Leitão, Henrique
Pazzagli, Rossano
Buccaro, Alfredo
Álvarez, Mari-Tere
Concepts
Science and art
Science and society
Technology
Engineering
Crafts and craftspeople
Technology and art
Time Periods
16th century
15th century
Renaissance
17th century
Early modern
14th century
Places
Europe
Italy
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