The Body of the Artisan

Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

Pamela H. Smith

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University of Chicago Press
15 October 2006

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Renaissance art; Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style; European history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Social & cultural history; History of science

"Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a ""new"" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans.

From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world."

By: Pamela H. Smith
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 23mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.276kg
ISBN: 9780226764238
ISBN 10: 0226764230
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 15 October 2006
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pamela H. Smith is professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire and coeditor of Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe.

Reviews for The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

"""A fascinating and significant contribution to a more social, collective, and diversified history of scientific (and artistic) transformations."" - Simon Werrett, Science ""Smith argues her point effectively through images as well as text. Her choice of artisanal artifacts is more than illustration; it is essential to her assertion that intellectual history is more than just a tale of 'great thinkers.'"" - Simon Ings, New Scientist"""