Physis and techneĢ in Greek medicine / Heinrich von Staden -- The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's Poetics / Francis Wolff -- Art and nature in ancient mechanics / Mark J. Schiefsky -- Art, nature, alchemy, and demons / William R. Newman -- Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes) / Dennis Des Chene -- The artificial and the natural / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Renaissance histories of art and nature / Anthony Grafton -- Leibniz's theater of nature and art and the idea of a universal picture atlas / Horst Bredekamp -- Spinoza on the natural and the artificial / Alan Gabbey -- Eighteenth-century wetware / Jessica Riskin -- Overtaking nature? the changing scope of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century / John Hedley Brooke -- Reconfiguring nature through syntheses / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- Concluding comments / Roald Hoffmann.
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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