Article ID: CBB565261905

The study of fossils in Leibniz's Protogaea: towards a reconctruction of the role of technological models in early modern paleontology (2019)

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The article is a detailed examination of practices originating in technology and art that were used as heuristically fertile models in Leibniz's Protogaea (1749) to explain the processes of fossilization and demonstrate the animal origin of fossils. Particular importance is given to engravings on copper, which, besides being the technique used to execute the plates in the Protogaea, also became an analogical model for the interpretation of fish fossils. These aspects of the Protogaea are contextualised within the broader framework of the interaction between artisanal and theoretical modes of knowledge in the Scientific Revolution and the still little-known historical development of this interaction in the field of paleontology.

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Authors & Contributors
Cohen, Claudine
Gregory P. Dietl
Joseph H. Hartman
Edward P.F. Rose
Charles G.M. Paxton
Volkan Sarıgül
Concepts
Fossils
Paleontology
Earth sciences
Geology
Science and art
Natural history
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Malta
England
Virginia (U.S.)
Florence (Italy)
Turkey
Institutions
University of Padua
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin)
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