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Philosophies of technology : Francis Bacon and his contemporaries /
"The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and technical culture of the Early Modern era and to draw systematic conclusions for the writing of Early Modern history of science. The divis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Volume
- One
- Notes on the Editors of this Volume
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction (Claus Zittel)
- Part I
- Beginnings
- Chapter 1
- "Industrious Observations, Grounded Conclusions, and Profi table Inventions and Discoveries; the Best State of That Province": Technology and Culture during Francis Bacon's Stay in France
- Chapter 2
- Francis Bacon's Scientia Operativa, The Tradition of the Workshops, and The Secrets of Nature
- Chapter 3
- Technical Knowledge and the Advancement of Learning: Some Questions about 'Perfectibility' and 'Invention'
- Chapter 4
- The Weatherglass and its Observers in the Early Seventeenth Century
- Part II
- Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments and Utopias
- Chapter 5
- The Role of Mechanics in Francis Bacon's Great Instauration
- Chapter 6
- Bacon's Brotherhood and its Classical Sources: Producing and Communicating Knowledge in the Project of the Great Instauration
- Chapter 7
- The Whale under the Microscope: Technology and Objectivity in Two Renaissance Utopias
- Volume
- 2
- Part III
- Metaphoric Models
- Chapter 8
- The Role of Metaphors in William Harvey's Thought
- Chapter 9
- Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological Foundation of Technological Metaphor in the Natural Philosophy of Ren233; Descartes
- Chapter 10
- Descartes as Bricoleur
- Part IV
- Bacon's Legacy: The Impact for the Arts and Sciences
- Chapter 11
- The Poet and the Philosopher: Francis Bacon and Georg Philipp Harsdrffer
- Chapter 12
- Formal Causes and Mechanical Causes: The Analogy of the Musical Instrument in Late Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
- Chapter 13
- The Modern Wonder and its Enemies: Courtly Innovations in the Spanish Renaissance
- Chapter 14
- The Gap between Theory and Practice: Hydrodynamical and Hydraulical Utopias in the 18th Century
- Chapter 15
- Sentimental Hydraulics: Utopia and Technology in 18th-Century France
- Chapter 16
- History Redoubled: The Synthesis of Facts in Linnaean Natural History
- Chapter 17
- Rescue Attempts: Scientific Images and the Mysteries of Power in the Era of Louis XIV
- Index Nominum.