TY  - BOOK
ED  - Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2007//
TI  - artificial and the natural: an evolving polarity
T3  - Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and
PB  - MIT
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
KW  - Science
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, European
KW  - Science, Medieval
AB  - 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
SN  - 0262026201
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman
ID  - 1608265250
ER  -