Ingenuity in the making: matter and technique in early modern Europe
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Oosterhoff, Richard J. ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Marcaida López, José Ramón (HerausgeberIn), Marr, Alexander 1978- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press [2021]
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Abstract:Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction | Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Part I. The Natures of Matter -- 1. Spirited Matter and Ingenious Nature: Accounting for Alchemical Change | Jennifer M. Rampling -- 2. Deceiving the Senses: The Role of Vapors in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy | Doina-Cristina Rusu -- 3. Robert Boyle's Restless Gems | Michael Bycroft -- 4. Handsteine: The Generative Powers of a Mineral Artifact | Andrés Vélez-Posada -- Part II. Bodies, Labor, and Technique -- 5. Ingenuity, Sweat, and Bloodsour Work in Sixteenth-Century Mining Literature | Tina Asmussen -- 6. Calligraphy and Metamorphosis: Invention and Imitation in a Sixteenth-Century Craft | Hannah Murphy -- 7. Ingeniosa peritia: The Languages of Ingenuity in Italian Renaissance Anatomy | Viktoria von Hoffmann -- 8. The Contested Ingenia of Early Modern Anatomy: Continuities and Conflicts in Medical Training at Leiden University, 1592-1678 | Evan R. Ragland -- 9. From Ingenuity to Genius and Technique: Shifting Concepts in Eighteenth-Century Theories of Art and Craft | Marieke M. A. Hendriksen -- Color Plates -- Part III. Crafty Makers on Display -- 10. Ingenious Monks and Their Machines: Trickery and Wonder in Sculptures with Movable Parts in Pre- and Reformation-Era Europe | Christina Neilson -- 11. Ingenuity in the Garden: From the Poetics of Grafting to Divine Mathematics | Denis Ribouillault -- 12. A Charlatan's Ingenuity: Juggling, Joking, and Medical Reform in Johann Ernst Burggrav's Lamp of Life and Death | Vera Keller -- 13. New World Feathers and the Matter of Early Modern Ingenuity: Digital Microscopes, Period Hands, and Period Eyes | Stefan Hanß -- 14. Unpacking Foreign Ingenuity: The German Conquest of Artful Objects with "Indian" Provenance | Anna Grasskamp -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (381 Seiten)
ISBN:9780822988465