The artificial and the natural
Subtitle: an evolving polarity
By: edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman.
Contributors: Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette.; Newman, William R.
Series: Dibner institute studies in the history of science and technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262026208
Subjects: Science -- Europe -- History; Science -- Philosophy -- History; Philosophy, European -- History; Science, Medieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the volume; title: Physis and téchn in Greek medicine; title: The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's poetics; title: Art and nature in ancient mechanics; title: Art, nature, alchemy, and demons in the late Middle Ages; title: Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes); title: The artificial and the natural; title: Renaissance histories of art and nature; title: Theatre of nature and art and the idea of a universal picture atlas; title: Spinoza on the natural and the artificial; title: Eighteenth-century wetware; title: Overtaking nature; title: Reconfiguring nature through syntheses; title: Concluding comments.