Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Richard J. Oosterhoff
  • Spirited matter and ingenious nature : accounting for alchemical change / Jennifer M. Rampling
  • Deceiving the senses : the role of vapors in Francis Bacon's natural philosophy / Doina-Cristina Rusu
  • Robert Boyle's restless gems / Michael Bycroft
  • Handsteine : the generative powers of a mineral artifact / Andrés Vélez-Posada
  • Ingenuity, sweat, and bloodsour work in sixteenth-century mining literature / Tina Asmussen
  • Calligraphy and metamorphosis : invention and imitation in a sixteenth-century craft / Hannah Murphy
  • Ingeniosa peritia : the languages of ingenuity in Italian Renaissance anatomy / Viktoria von Hoffmann
  • The contested ingenia of Early Modern anatomy : continuities and conflicts in medical training at Leiden University, 1592-1678 / Evan R. Ragland
  • From ingenuity to genius and technique : shifting concepts in eighteenth-century theories of art and craft / Marieke M. A. Hendriksen
  • Ingenious monks and their machines : trickery and wonder in sculptures with movable parts in pre- and Reformation-era Europe / Christina Neilson
  • Ingenuity in the garden : from the poetics of grafting to divine mathematics / Denis Ribouillault
  • A charlatan's ingenuity : juggling, joking, and medical reform in Johann Ernst Burggrav's Lamp of life and death / Vera Keller
  • New world feathers and the matter of Early Modern ingenuity : digital microscopes, period hands, and period eyes / Stefan Hanss
  • Unpacking foreign ingenuity : the German conquest of artful objects with "Indian" provenance / Anna Grasskamp.