Book ID: CBB000773338

The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (2007)

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Roberts, Lissa Louise (Editor)
Schaffer, Simon (Editor)
Dear, Peter Robert (Editor)


Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
Publication date: 2007
Language: English


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xxvii + 503 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Friedel, Robert (2008) Review of "The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation". Technology and Culture (p. 1045). unapi

Review Golinski, Jan (2009) Review of "The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 142). unapi

Review Dupré, Sven (2011) Review of "The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 291). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Roberts, Lissa (2007) Introduction to “Geographies of Skill”. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 189). unapi

Chapter Roberts, Lissa (2007) Mapping Steam Engines and Skill in Eighteenth-Century Holland. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 196). unapi

Chapter Klein, Ursula (2007) Apothecary Shops, Laboratories and Chemical Manufacture in Eighteenth-Century Germany. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 246). unapi

Chapter Schaffer, Simon (2007) Introduction to “Art and Industry”. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 309). unapi

Chapter Werrett, Simon (2007) From the Grand Whim to the Gasworks: “Philosophical Fireworks” in Georgian England. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 324). unapi

Chapter Rosenband, Leonard (2007) Becoming Competitive: England's Papermaking Apprenticeship, 1700--1800. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 378). unapi

Chapter Dear, Peter (2007) Towards a Genealogy of Modern Science. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 431). unapi

Chapter Inkster, Ian (2007) Thoughtful Doing and Early-Modern Oeconomy. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 443). unapi

Chapter Henninger-Voss, Mary (2007) Comets and Cannonballs: Reading Technology in a Sixteenth-Century Library. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 10). unapi

Chapter Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan (2007) Constructive Thinking: A Case for Dioptrics. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 58). unapi

Chapter Rinne, Katherine W. (2007) Between Precedent and Experiment: Restoring the Acqua Vergine in Rome, 1560--70. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 94). unapi

Chapter Ash, Eric H. (2007) Amending Nature: Draining the English Fens. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 116). unapi

Chapter Mukerji, Chandra (2007) Demonstration and Verification in Engineering: Ascertaining Truth and Telling Fictions along the Canal du Midi. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 168). unapi

Chapter Bennett, Jim (2007) Wind-Gun, Air-Gun or Pop-Gun: The Fortunes of a Philosophical Instrument. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 220). unapi

Chapter Schaffer, Simon (2007) “The Charter'd Thames”: Naval Architecture and Experimental Spaces in Georgian Britain. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 278). unapi

Chapter Ashworth, William (2007) The Intersection of Industry and the State in Eighteenth-Century Britain. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 348). unapi

Chapter Johns, Adrian (2007) The Identity Engine: Printing and Publishing at the Beginning of the Knowledge Economy. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 402). unapi

Chapter Smith, Pamela H. (2007) In a Sixteenth-Century Goldsmith's Workshop. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 32). unapi

Chapter Schaffer, Simon (2007) Introduction to “Nature's Oeconomy”. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 85). unapi

Chapter Fleischer, Alette (2007) The Beemster Polder: Conservative Invention and Holland's Great Pleasure Garden. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 144). unapi

Chapter Roberts, Lissa (2007) Introduction to “Workshops of the Hand and Mind”. In: The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane
Long, Pamela O.
Burroughs, Stuart
Córdoba de la Llave, Ricardo
Curtis, Emily Byrne
Kamil, Neil
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History of Science
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Technology and Culture
Publishers
Oregon State University Press
University of Toronto
Albin Michel
Aracne
Ashgate
Brill
Concepts
Technology
Crafts and craftspeople
Inventors and invention
Industrialization
Engineering
Industrial revolution
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Reuleaux, Franz
Time Periods
16th century
18th century
15th century
17th century
19th century
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Europe
United States
New York (U.S.)
China
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