Pamela H. Smith - The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
University Of Chicago Press (October 15, 2006) | ISBN: 0226764230 | English | Pages: 408 | PDF | 100.62MB
In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source: artists and artisans. Goldsmiths, locksmiths, carpenters, and painters were all sought after by early scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials, as well as their ability to manipulate them.