The artificial and the natural: an evolving polarity
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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] <<The>> MIT Press 2007
Schriftenreihe:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:VI, 331 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780262026208

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