Screen LibraryThe artificial and the natural：an evolving polarity
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
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| Carrier Form: | vi, 331 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780262026208 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0262026201 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | N095 |
| CLC: | N095 |
| Call Number: | N095/A791 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Physis and technē in Greek medicine -- The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's Poetics -- Art and nature in ancient mechanics -- Art, nature, alchemy, and demons -- Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes) -- The artificial and the natural -- Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Leibniz's theatre of nature and art and the idea of a universal picture atlas -- Spinoza on the natural and the artificial -- Eighteenth-century wetware -- Overtaking nature? the changing scope of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century -- Reconfigur |