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Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity
defined every person-not just exceptional individuals-as having
their own attributes and talents, stemming from an "inborn nature"
that included many qualities, not just intelligence. Through
ingenuity and its family of related terms, early moderns sought to
understand and appreciate differences between peoples, places, and
things in an attempt to classify their ingenuities and assign
professions that were best suited to one's abilities. Logodaedalus,
a prehistory of genius, explores the various ways this language of
ingenuity was defined, used, and manipulated between 1470 and 1750.
By analyzing printed dictionaries and other lexical works across a
range of languages-Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English,
German, and Dutch-the authors reveal the ways in which significant
words produced meaning in history and found expression in natural
philosophy, medicine, natural history, mathematics, mechanics,
poetics, and artistic theory.
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