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1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The Artificial and the Natural : State of the Problem / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman -- Physis and Technē in Greek Medicine / Heinrich von Staden -- The Three Pleasures of Mimesis According to Aristotle's Poetics / Francis Wolff -- Art and Nature in Ancient Mechanics / Mark J. Schiefsky -- Art, Nature, Alchemy, and Demons : The Case of the Malleus Maleficarum and Its Medieval Sources / William R. Newman -- Forms of Art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a Coda on Descartes) / Dennis Des Chene -- The Artificial and the Natural : Arcimboldo and the Origins of Still Life / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Renaissance Histories of Art and Nature / Anthony Grafton -- Leibniz's Theater of Nature and Art and the Idea of a Universal Picture Atlas / Horst Bredekamp -- Spinoza on the Natural and the Artificial / Alan Gabbey -- Eighteenth-Century Wetware / Jessica Riskin -- Overtaking Nature? : The Changing Scope of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century / John Hedley Brooke -- Reconfiguring Nature through Syntheses : From Plastics to Biomimetics / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- Concluding Comments / Roald Hoffmann |
| Summary |
Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics |
| Analysis |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Science -- Europe -- History
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Science -- Philosophy -- History
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Philosophy, European -- History
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Science, Medieval.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Philosophy, European
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Science
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Science, Medieval
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Science -- Philosophy
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, editor.
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Newman, William R., 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262268172 |
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0262268175 |
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9780262026208 |
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0262026201 |
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9781435606005 |
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1435606000 |
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1282099116 |
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9781282099111 |
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