Format:
VI, 331 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9780262026208
Series Statement:
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction to the volume -- Physis and techn in Greek medicine -- The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's poetics -- Art and nature in ancient mechanics -- Art, nature, alchemy, and demons in the late Middle Ages -- Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes) -- The artificial and the natural -- Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Theatre of nature and art and the idea of a universal picture atlas -- Spinoza on the natural and the artificial -- Eighteenth-century wetware -- Overtaking nature -- Reconfiguring nature through syntheses -- Concluding comments
Language:
English
Subjects:
Natural Sciences
,
General works
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Europa
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Naturverständnis
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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