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Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800Edited by Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt
University of Chicago Press, 2008
The fruits of knowledge—such as books, data, and ideas—tend to generate far more attention than the ways in which knowledge is produced and acquired. Correcting this imbalance, Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe brings together a wide-ranging yet tightly integrated series of essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit.
Composed by scholars in disciplines ranging from the history of science to art history to religious studies, the pieces collected here look at the production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within many different communities. They focus, in particular, on how the methods employed by scientists and intellectuals came to interact with the practices of craftspeople and practitioners to create new ways of knowing. Examining the role of texts, reading habits, painting methods, and countless other forms of knowledge making, this volume brilliantly illuminates the myriad ways these processes affected and were affected by the period’s monumental shifts in culture and learning.
Composed by scholars in disciplines ranging from the history of science to art history to religious studies, the pieces collected here look at the production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within many different communities. They focus, in particular, on how the methods employed by scientists and intellectuals came to interact with the practices of craftspeople and practitioners to create new ways of knowing. Examining the role of texts, reading habits, painting methods, and countless other forms of knowledge making, this volume brilliantly illuminates the myriad ways these processes affected and were affected by the period’s monumental shifts in culture and learning.
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Science of Naples
Making Knowledge in Italy's Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800Edited by Lorenza Gianfrancesco and Neil Tarrant
University College London, 2024
The story of Naples' overlooked scientific contributions and its pivotal role in early modern European scientific culture.
Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years scholars have revised the received understanding of the political and economic significance of the city of Naples and its rich artistic, musical, and political culture. Its importance in the history of science, however, has remained relatively unknown. The Science of Naples provides the first dedicated study of Neapolitan scientific culture in the English language. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this volume presents a series of studies that demonstrate Neapolitans’ manifold contributions to European scientific culture in the early modern period and considers the importance of the city, its institutions, and its surrounding territories for the production of new knowledge.
Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century, and how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and volcanology. Taken together, these studies resituate the city of Naples as an integral part of a scientific culture that has increasingly globalized and present a rich and engaging portrait of the individuals who lived, worked, and made scientific knowledge there.
Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years scholars have revised the received understanding of the political and economic significance of the city of Naples and its rich artistic, musical, and political culture. Its importance in the history of science, however, has remained relatively unknown. The Science of Naples provides the first dedicated study of Neapolitan scientific culture in the English language. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this volume presents a series of studies that demonstrate Neapolitans’ manifold contributions to European scientific culture in the early modern period and considers the importance of the city, its institutions, and its surrounding territories for the production of new knowledge.
Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century, and how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and volcanology. Taken together, these studies resituate the city of Naples as an integral part of a scientific culture that has increasingly globalized and present a rich and engaging portrait of the individuals who lived, worked, and made scientific knowledge there.
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