The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation
- ISBN-10
- 9069844834
- ISBN-13
- 9789069844831
- Category
- Industrial arts
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Edita-The Publishing House of the Royal
- Authors
- Simon Schaffer, Peter Dear, Lissa Roberts
Description
Although manual labour and theoretical invention might now seem separate ventures, history teaches us that they are closely linked processes. The Mindful Hand explores innovative areas of European society between the late Renaissance and the period of early industrialisation where the enterprise of knowledge and production relied on the most intimate connexions of thought and toil. This volume explains how philosophers and labourers collaborated in an environment where artisans and instrument-makers, administrators and entrepreneurs simultaneously pioneered 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.
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