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From lived experience to the written word : reconstructing practical knowledge in the early modern world / Pamela H. Smith

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Smith, Pamela H., 1957-
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Reconstructing practical knowledge in the early modern world
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
346 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

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Contents
Part 1. Vernacular theorizing in craft. 1. Is handwork knowledge? ; 2. The metalworker's philosophy ; 3. Thinking with lizards -- Part 2. Writing down experience. 4. Artisan authors ; 5. Writing kunst ; 6. Recipes for kunst -- Part 3. Reading and collecting. 7. Who read and used little books of art? ; 8. Kunst as power: making and collecting -- Part 4. Making and knowing. 9. Reconstructing practical knowledge: hastening to experience ; 10. A vocabulary for mind-body knowing -- Epilogue. Global routes of practical knowledge.
Summary
"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--
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9780226800271 hardcover
022680027X hardcover
9780226817231 paperback
0226817237 paperback
9780226818245 paperback
0226818241 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-328) and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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