This book provides the historical background for a central issue in
the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and
other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that
characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical
revision of the "Zilsel thesis," an influential etiological
narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in
bringing about the "Scientific Revolution."
"Artisan/Practitioners" reassesses the issue of artisanal
influence from three different perspectives: the perceived
relationships between art and nature; the Vitruvian architectural
tradition with its appreciation of both theory and practice; and
the development of "trading zones"--arenas in which artisans and
learned men communicated in substantive ways. These complex social
and intellectual developments, the book argues, underlay the
development of the empirical sciences.
This volume provides new discussion and synthesis of a theory
that encompasses broad developments in European history and study
of the natural world. It will be a valuable resource for
college-level teaching, and for scholars and others interested in
the history of science, late medieval and early modern European
history, and the Scientific Revolution.
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