This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical revision of the "Zilsel thesis," an influential etiological narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in bringing about the "Scientific Revolution."
Artisan/Practitioners reassesses the issue of artisanal influence from three different perspectives: the perceived relationships between art and nature; the Vitruvian architectural tradition with its appreciation of both theory and practice; and the development of "trading zones"--arenas in which artisans and learned men communicated in substantive ways. These complex social and intellectual developments, the book argues, underlay the development of the empirical sciences.
This volume provides new discussion and synthesis of a theory that encompasses broad developments in European history and study of the natural world. It will be a valuable resource for college-level teaching, and for scholars and others interested in the history of science, late medieval and early modern European history, and the Scientific Revolution.
1 有用 Martjn 2017-11-29 04:11:18
对产学合流带来早期科技革命的看法和窝佬猜测完全相同,不过叙事有点散漫,非常女史家特色(?)地八卦了好久20世纪初期左右派科技史学家的感情生活,这点很好(???)
0 有用 Gillian 2019-12-22 05:53:35
剛在大都會博物館看完<Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe>展覽,很應景的看下這本書。認為在前現代art and nature, artist and craftsman的二元對立已經逐漸瓦解。
0 有用 砸烂马家店 2021-09-09 22:21:09
经验的价值被学者认可是新科学诞生的前提。中世纪晚期,工匠艺人与学者在trading zone里的的互动奠定了这一前提。
0 有用 砸烂马家店 2021-09-09 22:21:09
经验的价值被学者认可是新科学诞生的前提。中世纪晚期,工匠艺人与学者在trading zone里的的互动奠定了这一前提。
0 有用 Gillian 2019-12-22 05:53:35
剛在大都會博物館看完<Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe>展覽,很應景的看下這本書。認為在前現代art and nature, artist and craftsman的二元對立已經逐漸瓦解。
1 有用 Martjn 2017-11-29 04:11:18
对产学合流带来早期科技革命的看法和窝佬猜测完全相同,不过叙事有点散漫,非常女史家特色(?)地八卦了好久20世纪初期左右派科技史学家的感情生活,这点很好(???)