%0 Book %T artificial and the natural: an evolving polarity %E Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette %S Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and %D 2007 %I MIT %C Cambridge, Mass. %@ 0262026201 %G English %F 1608265250 %O edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman %O Includes bibliographical references and index %O Archivierung prüfen 20200919 DE-640 3 pdager %X Introduction -- Physis and technē in Greek medicine -- The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's Poetics -- Art and nature in ancient mechanics -- Art, nature, alchemy, and demons -- Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes) -- The artificial and the natural -- Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Leibniz's theatre of nature and art and the idea of a universal picture atlas -- Spinoza on the natural and the artificial -- Eighteenth-century wetware -- Overtaking nature? the changing scope of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century -- Reconfiguring nature through syntheses -- Concluding comments %L 501 %K Science %K Europe %K History %K Philosophy %K Philosophy, European %K Science, Medieval %9 Text %9 Aufsatzsammlung