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Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Archimedes, 60
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This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the
co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the
early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various
relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge -
Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining,
and Practical Mathematics - which represent the main types of
advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These
six fields of technologically advanced knowledge and their
interrelations and interactions with learned knowledge are
investigated and discussed through a specific lens: by focusing on
the technological literature. Among present-day historians of
science, it hardly remains controversial that contact and exchange
between educated and practical knowledge played a significant role
in the development of the natural sciences and technology in early
modern Europe. Several paths for such exchange arose from the late
Middle Ages onward due to the formation of an economy of knowledge
that fostered contacts and exchange between the two worlds. How can
this development be adequately described and how, on the basis of
such a description, can the significance of this process for the
early modern history of knowledge in the West be assessed? These
are the overarching questions this book tries to answer. There
exists a considerable amount of literature concerning several
stations and events in the course of this long development process
as well as its various aspects. As meritorious and indispensable as
many of these studies are, none of them tried to portray this
process as a whole with its most essential branches. What is more,
many of them implicitly or explicitly took physics as a model of
science, and thus highlighted mechanics and mechanical engineering
as the model of all interrelations of practical and learned
knowledge. By contrast, this book aims at a more complete portrait
of the early modern interrelations and interactions between learned
and practical knowledge. It tries to convey a new idea of the
variety and disunity of these relations by discussing and comparing
altogether six widely different fields of knowledge and practice.
The targeted audience of this book is first of all the historians
of science and technology. As one of the peer reviewers suggested -
the book could very well become a textbook used for teaching the
history of science and technology at universities. Furthermore,
since the book addresses fundamental aspects of the significance
emergence and development of modern science has for the self-image
of the West, it can be expected that it will attract the attention
and interest of a wider readership than professional historians.
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