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1 online resource (381 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Spirited matter and ingenious nature : accounting for alchemical change / Jennifer M. Rampling -- Deceiving the senses : the role of vapors in Francis Bacon's natural philosophy / Doina-Cristina Rusu -- Robert Boyle's restless gems / Michael Bycroft -- Handsteine : the generative powers of a mineral artifact / Andrés Vélez-Posada -- Ingenuity, sweat, and bloodsour work in sixteenth-century mining literature / Tina Asmussen -- Calligraphy and metamorphosis : invention and imitation in a sixteenth-century craft / Hannah Murphy -- Ingeniosa peritia : the languages of ingenuity in Italian Renaissance anatomy / Viktoria von Hoffmann -- Contested ingenia of Early Modern anatomy : continuities and conflicts in medical training at Leiden University, 1592-1678 / Evan R. Ragland -- From ingenuity to genius and technique : shifting concepts in eighteenth-century theories of art and craft / Marieke M. A. Hendriksen -- Ingenious monks and their machines : trickery and wonder in sculptures with movable parts in pre- and Reformation-era Europe / Christina Neilson -- Ingenuity in the garden : from the poetics of grafting to divine mathematics / Denis Ribouillault -- A charlatan's ingenuity : juggling, joking, and medical reform in Johann Ernst Burggrav's Lamp of life and death / Vera Keller -- New world feathers and the matter of Early Modern ingenuity : digital microscopes, period hands, and period eyes / Stefan Hanss -- Unpacking foreign ingenuity : the German conquest of artful objects with "Indian" provenance / Anna Grasskamp. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creative ability in technology -- Europe -- History.
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Creative ability in technology. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Material culture -- Europe -- History.
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Material culture. |
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Technological innovations -- Europe -- History.
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Technological innovations. |
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Artists' materials -- Europe -- History.
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Artists' materials. |
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Science -- Europe -- History.
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Science. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Oosterhoff, Richard J., editor.
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Marcaida, José Ramón, editor.
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Marr, Alexander, 1978- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oosterhoff, Richard J. Ingenuity in the Making : University of Pittsburgh Press,c2021 9780822946885 |
| ISBN |
0822988461 (electronic book) |
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9780822988465 (electronic book) |
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0822946882 |
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9780822946885 |
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