Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800

Name: Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800
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ISBN: 9780226763293

ISBN-10: 0226763293

ISBN-13: 9780226763293

Edition: 2008

Authors: Pamela H. Smith, Benjamin Schmidt

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The fruits of knowledge—such as books, data, and ideas—tend to generate far more attention than the ways in which knowledge is produced and acquired. Correcting this imbalance,Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europebrings together a wide-ranging yet tightly integrated series of essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. Composed by scholars in disciplines ranging from the history of science to art history to religious studies, the pieces collected here look at the production and consumption of knowledge as a social…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Knowledge and Its Making in Early Modern Europe



Making Knowledge from the Margins



Women Engineers and the Culture of the Pyrenees: Indigenous Knowledge and Engineering in Seventeenth-Century France




Visual Representation as Instructional Text: Jan van Eyck and The Ghent Altarpiece




Explosive Affinities: Pyrotechnic Knowledge in Early Modern Europe




Naming and Knowing: The Global Politics of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Nomenclatures



Practices of Reading and Writing



Novel Knowledge: Innovation in Dutch Literature and Society of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries




Watches, Diary Writing, and the Search for Self-Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century




The Moral of the Story: Children's Reading and the Catechism of Nature around 1800




Method as Knowledge: Scribal Theology, Protestantism, and the Reinvention of Shorthand in Sixteenth-Century England




Boyle's Essay: Genre and the Making of Early Modern Knowledge



The Reform of Knowledge



Making Sense of Medical Collections in Early Modern Holland: The Uses of Wonder




In Search of True Knowledge: Ole Worm (1588-1654) and the New Philosophy




Stone Gods and Counter-Reformation Knowledges




Temple and Tabernacle: The Place of Religion in Early Modern England




The Fiscal Logic of Enlightened German Science



Notes List of Contributors


Index