Format:
331 S.
,
Ill.
,
22cm
ISBN:
0262026201
,
9780262026208
Series Statement:
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and
Content:
Introduction -- Physis and technē in Greek medicine -- The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's Poetics -- Art and nature in ancient mechanics -- Art, nature, alchemy, and demons -- Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes) -- The artificial and the natural -- Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Leibniz's 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? the changing scope of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century -- Reconfiguring nature through syntheses -- Concluding comments
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction -- Physis and technē in Greek medicine -- The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's Poetics -- Art and nature in ancient mechanics -- Art, nature, alchemy, and demons -- Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes) -- The artificial and the natural -- Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Leibniz's 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? the changing scope of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century -- Reconfiguring nature through syntheses -- Concluding comments.
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Introduction to the volume -- Physis and téchn 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
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Chene, Dennis Des The Artificial and the Natural Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014 ISBN 9780262268172
Language:
English
Subjects:
Natural Sciences
,
General works
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Europa
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Naturverständnis
;
Geschichte
;
Europa
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Naturverständnis
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001896.html
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