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  • Ingenuity in the Making

    Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe

    Edición de Richard J. Oosterhoff, José Ramón Marcaida, Alexander Marr ...
    Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Logodaedalus

    Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe

    de Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, José Ramón Marcaida, Richard J. Oosterhoff ...
    Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individuals—as having their own attributes and talents, stemming from an “inborn nature” that included many qualities, not just intelligence. Through ingenuity and its family of related terms, early moderns sought to understand and appreciate differences between peoples, places, and things ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Making Mathematical Culture

    University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples

    de Richard J. Oosterhoff ...
    Series series Oxford-Warburg Studies
    In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c. 1455-1536). As printed books became central to the intellectual habits of following generations, Lefèvre turned especially to mathematics as a way to renovate the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edición de Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Leer más

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  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    de Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    de Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • The Body of the Artisan

    Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

    de Pamela H. Smith ...
    Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans ... Leer más

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  • The Poison Trials

    Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

    de Alisha Rankin ...
    In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known ... Leer más

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  • The Study

    The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries

    de Andrew Hui ...
    A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy ... Leer más

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  • Athanasius Kircher

    The Last Man Who Knew Everything

    Edición de Paula Findlen ...
    First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • From Lived Experience to the Written Word

    Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

    de Pamela H. Smith ...
    How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge.In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, ... Leer más

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  • Beauty: The Body as Artefact

    Historical Sources from Cicero to Goya

    Edición de Romana Sammern, Julia Saviello ...
    Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as both a product of nature and an artistic creation.Examining the intersections of aesthetics, art theory ... Leer más

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