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Author Long, Pamela O

Title Openness, secrecy, authorship : technical arts and the culture of knowledge from antiquity to the Renaissance / Pamela O. Long
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Contents ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Editions and Translations""; ""INTRODUCTION Categories and Key Words Local Meaning in Long-Term History""; ""Chapter 1 Open Authorship within Ancient Traditions of Techneµ and Praxis""; ""Chapter 2 Secrecy and Esoteric Knowledge in Late Antiquity""; ""Chapter 3 Handing Down Craft Knowledge""; ""Chapter 4 Authorship on the Mechanical Arts in the Last Scribal Age""; ""Chapter 5 Secrecy and the Esoteric Traditions of the Renaissance""; ""Chapter 6 Openness and Authorship I Mining, Metallurgy, and the Military Arts""
Chapter 7 Openness and Authorship II Painting, Architecture, and Other ArtsEpilogue Values of Transmission and the New Sciences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-350) and index
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Subject Technology and civilization -- History -- To 1500
Communication of technical information -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Technical writing -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Intellectual property -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
Communication of technical information
Intellectual property
Learning and scholarship
Renaissance
Technical writing
Technology and civilization
Technologie.
Ambachten.
Publicaties.
Auteurschap.
Kennisoverdracht.
Europe
Genre/Form History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0801872820
9780801872822
0801866065
9780801866067