Ways of making and knowing
Subtitle: the material culture of empirical knowledge
By: edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook
Series: The Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780472119271; 9780472120185
Subjects: Intellectual life; Philosophy; History; Theory of Knowledge; Empiricism; Material culture; Handicraft
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Making and Knowing / Harold J. Cook, Pamela H. Smith, and Amy R.W. Meyers; title: Making as Knowing : Craft as Natural Philosophy / Pamela H. Smith; title: From Skills to Wisdom : Making, Knowing, and the Arts / Suzanne B. Butters; title: Between Trade and Science : Dyeing and Knowing in the Long Eighteenth Century / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts; title: How to Cure the Golden Vein : Medical Remedies as Wissenschaft in Early Modern Germany / Alisha Rankin; title: Evidence, Artisan Experience, and Authority in Early Modern England / Patrick Wallis and Catherine Wright; title: American Roots : Techniques of Plant Transportation and Cultivation in the Early Atlantic World / Mark Laird and Karen Bridgman; title: Inside the Box : John Bartram and the Science and Commerce of the Transatlantic Plant Trade / Joel T. Fry; title: From Plant to Page : Aesthetics and Objectivity in a Nineteenth-Century Book of Trees / Lisa L. Ford; title: The Labor of Division : Cabinetmaking and the Production of Knowledge / Glenn Adamson; title: Making Lists : Social and Material Technologies in the Making of Seventeenth-Century British Natural History / Elizabeth Yale; title: The Preservation of Specimens and the Takeoff in Anatomical Knowledge in the Early Modern Period / Harold J. Cook; title: Conrad Gessner on an "Ad Vivum" Image / Sachiko Kusukawa; title: Corals versus Trees : Charles Darwin's Early Sketches of Evolution / Horst Bredekamp; title: Decay, Conservation, and the Making of Meaning through Museum Objects / Mary M. Brooks; title: Epilogue: Making and Knowing, Then and Now / Malcolm Baker.