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The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 509.40903
EAN: 9780226764238
ISBN: 0226764230
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: October 15, 2006
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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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 thoroughly 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. “A fascinating and significant contribution to a more social, collective, and diversified history of scientific (and artistic) transformations.”—Simon Werrett, Science
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Rating: - exciting new trend in Alchemical studies
The next time I have the opportunity to teach a class on alchemy and art, I will be sure to include this book as required reading. Pamela Smith has given us a powerful argument for the place of alchemy in early modern art history. You will learn much about the subject of alchemy as matter theory from the point of view of renaissance artists, who found alchemy useful as a set of symbols and vocabulary for talking about their "subject matter." There is much of interest here about the mystical side ... Read More
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