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UNINA9910821461103321 |
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Titolo |
The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-30923-8 |
1-282-09911-6 |
9786612099113 |
0-262-26817-5 |
1-4356-0600-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (341 p.) |
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Collana |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Bensaude-VincentBernadette |
NewmanWilliam R. <1955-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science - Europe - History |
Science - Philosophy - History |
Philosophy, European - History |
Science, Medieval |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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10 Spinoza on the Natural and the Artificial11 Eighteenth-Century Wetware; 12 Overtaking Nature? The Changing Scope of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century; 13 Reconfiguring Nature through Syntheses: From Plastics to Biomimetics; 14 Concluding Comments; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics. |
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