Format:
VI, 331 S. :
,
Ill.
ISBN:
978-0-262-02620-8
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:
Naturwissenschaften
;
Naturverständnis
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung