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The artificial and the natural an evolving polarity / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman.
| Other author | Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. |
| Other author | Newman, William R. 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | vi, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
| Subjects |
| Series | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Contents | 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 -- Reconfiguring nature through syntheses -- Concluding comments. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007001896 |
| ISBN | 9780262026208 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262026201 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |