Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-328) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue. Global routes of practical knowledge. 1. Is handwork knowledge? ; 2. The metalworker's philosophy ; 3. Thinking with lizards -- Part 2. Writing down experience. 4. Artisan authors ; 5. Writing kunst ; 6. Recipes for kunst -- Part 3. Reading and collecting. 7. Who read and used little books of art? ; 8. Kunst as power : making and collecting -- Part 4. Making and knowing. 9. Reconstructing practical knowledge : hastening to experience ; 10. A lexicon for mind-body knowing -- Epilogue. Global routes of practical knowledge.
Summary:
This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. In this book, the author shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued into the twenty-first century and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge. -- Adapted from publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.