The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette (Editor ), Newman, William R., 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Colección:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Temas:
Science > Europe > History.
Science > Philosophy > History.
Philosophy, European > History.
Science, Medieval.
Sciences > Europe > Histoire.
Philosophie européenne > Histoire.
Sciences médiévales.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Philosophy, European.
Science.
Science > Philosophy.
Europe.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
History.
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.

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