From lived experience to the written word : reconstructing practical knowledge in the early modern world / Pamela H. Smith.
| Author/creator | Smith, Pamela H., 1957- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. |
| Copyright Date | ©2022 |
| Description | 346 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Reconstructing practical knowledge in the early modern world |
| Contents | Part 1. Vernacular theorizing in craft. 1. Is handwork knowledge? ; 2. The metalworker's philosophy ; 3. Thinking with lizards -- Part 2. Writing down experience. 4. Artisan authors ; 5. Writing kunst ; 6. Recipes for kunst -- Part 3. Reading and collecting. 7. Who read and used little books of art? ; 8. Kunst as power : making and collecting -- Part 4. Making and knowing. 9. Reconstructing practical knowledge : hastening to experience ; 10. A lexicon for mind-body knowing -- Epilogue. Global routes of practical knowledge. |
| Abstract | This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. In this book, the author shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued into the twenty-first century and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge. -- Adapted from publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-328) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021042946 |
| ISBN | 9780226800271 hardcover |
| ISBN | 022680027X hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780226817231 paperback |
| ISBN | 0226817237 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780226818245 paperback |
| ISBN | 0226818241 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 10.7208/chicago/9780226818238.0001 |
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