Ebook: The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Flanders; 1: The Artisanal World; Part Two: South German Cities; 2: Artisanal Epistemology; 3: The Body of the Artisan; 4: Artisanship, Alchemy, and a Vernacular Science of Matter; Part Three: The Dutch Republic; 5: The Legacy of Paracelsus: Practitioners and New Philosophers; 6: The Institutionalization of the New Philosophy; Conclusion: Toward a History of Vernacular Science; Notes; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index.