The Mindful Hand Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation

Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer, Peter Dear

ISBN 10: 9069844834 / ISBN 13: 9789069844831

Published by Edita-The Publishing House of the Royal, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mindful Hand Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation
• Publisher: Edita-The Publishing House of the Royal
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9069844834
• ISBN 13: 9789069844831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

Although manual labor and theoretical invention might now seem separate ventures, they are closely linked processes. The Mindful Hand explores innovative areas of European society between the late Renaissance and the period of early industrialization where the enterprise of knowledge and production relied on the most intimate connections of thought and toil. It explains how philosophers and laborers collaborated to pioneer technical change alongside knowledge formation. The essays gathered here help show how these projects were pursued together, yet why, in retrospect, the very categories of science and technology emerged as seemingly distinct endeavors.

 

 

 

About the Authors

Lissa L. Roberts is associate professor of the history of science at the University Twente, the Netherlands.

Simon Schaffer is professor of the history of science at the University of Cambridge.

Peter Dear is professor of the history of science at Cornell University.

Peter Dear is professor of science and technology studies and history at Cornell University. He is the author of Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700 and Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.