Philosophies of Technology Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries 1st Edition by Claus Zittel ISBN 9004170502 9789004170506 by Claus Zittel, Engel, Romano Nanni, Nicole C. Karafyllis 9789004170506, 9004170502 instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 9004170502

ISBN 13: 9789004170506 

Author: Claus Zittel

"The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and technical culture of the Early Modern era and to draw systematic conclusions for the writing of Early Modern history of science. The divisive transformation of humanist scholarly culture, the Scholastic school philosophy, as well as magic in the form of a philosophy of practice is always associated with the work of Francis Bacon. All of these essays in this volume reflect the close interaction between technical models and knowledge production in natural philosophy, natural history and epistemology. It becomes clear that the technological developments of the Early Modern era cannot be adequately depicted in the form of a pure history of technology but rather only as part of a broader, cultural history of the sciences."--Publisher's description.

Table of contents:

Vol. 1. Introduction

1. Introduction – Claus Zittel

Part I. Beginnings
2. "Industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries; the best state of that province": Technology and culture during Francis Bacon's stay in France – Luisa Dolza
3. Francis Bacon's Scientia operativa, the tradition of the workshops, and the secrets of nature – Jürgen Klein
4. Technical knowledge and the advancement of learning: Some questions about 'perfectibility' and 'invention' – Romano Nanni
5. The weatherglass and its observers in the early seventeenth century – Arianna Borrelli

Part II. Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments and Utopias
6. The role of mechanics in Francis Bacon's Great Instauration – Sophie Weeks
7. Bacon's brotherhood and its classical sources: Producing and communicating knowledge in the project of the Great Instauration – Dana Jalobeanu
8. The whale under the microscope: Technology and objectivity in two Renaissance utopias – Todd Andrew Borlik

Vol. 2

Part III. Metaphoric Models
9. The role of metaphors in William Harvey's thoughts – Jarmo Pulkkinen
10. Legitimating the machine: The epistemological foundation of technical metaphor in the natural philosophy of René Descartes – Andres Vaccari
11. Descartes as Bricoleur – Claus Zittel

Part IV. Bacon's Legacy: The Impact for the Arts and Sciences
12. The poet and the philosopher: Francis Bacon and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer – Berthold Heinecke
13. Formal causes and mechanical causes: The analogy of the musical instrument in late seventeenth-century natural philosophy – Benjamin Wardhaugh
14. The modern wonder and its enemies: Courtly innovations in the Spanish Renaissance – Daniel Damler
15. The gap between theory and practice: Hydrodynamical and hydraulical utopias in the 18th century – Moritz Epple
16. Sentimental hydraulics: Utopia and technology in 18th-century France – Thomas Brandstetter
17. History re-doubled: The synthesis of facts in Linnaean natural history – Staffan Müller-Wille
18. Rescue attempts: Scientific images and the mysteries of power in the era of Louis XIV – Pablo Schneider

Index Nominum

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