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The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity /
Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The Artificial and the Natural : State of the Problem / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman
- Physis and Technē in Greek Medicine / Heinrich von Staden
- The Three Pleasures of Mimesis According to Aristotle's Poetics / Francis Wolff
- Art and Nature in Ancient Mechanics / Mark J. Schiefsky
- Art, Nature, Alchemy, and Demons : The Case of the Malleus Maleficarum and Its Medieval Sources / William R. Newman
- Forms of Art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a Coda on Descartes) / Dennis Des Chene
- The Artificial and the Natural : Arcimboldo and the Origins of Still Life / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
- Renaissance Histories of Art and Nature / Anthony Grafton
- Leibniz's Theater of Nature and Art and the Idea of a Universal Picture Atlas / Horst Bredekamp
- Spinoza on the Natural and the Artificial / Alan Gabbey
- Eighteenth-Century Wetware / Jessica Riskin
- Overtaking Nature? : The Changing Scope of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century / John Hedley Brooke
- Reconfiguring Nature through Syntheses : From Plastics to Biomimetics / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- Concluding Comments / Roald Hoffmann.