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The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, Newman, William R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
Series:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Subjects:
Science > Europe > History.
Science > Philosophy > History.
Philosophy, European > History.
Science, Medieval.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Physis and technÄ“ 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.