| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Artificial and the Natural : State of the Problem / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman -- Physis and Technē in Greek Medicine / Heinrich von Staden -- 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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Europe -- History.
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Science. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Science -- Philosophy -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Philosophy, European -- History.
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Philosophy, European. |
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Science, Medieval.
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Science, Medieval. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette.
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Newman, William R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Artificial and the natural. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007 9780262026208 0262026201 (DLC) 2007001896 (OCoLC)79003977 |
| ISBN |
9780262268172 (electronic book) |
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0262268175 (electronic book) |
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9780262026208 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262026201 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781435606005 (electronic book) |
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1435606000 (electronic book) |
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1282099116 |
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9781282099111 |
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