03129nam 2200781Ia 450 991097214200332120200520144314.0978661209911397802623092330262309238978128209911112820991169780262268172026226817597814356060051435606000(CKB)1000000000479492(EBL)3338739(SSID)ssj0000106092(PQKBManifestationID)11125142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106092(PQKBWorkID)10108024(PQKB)11490802(OCoLC)181029068(OCoLC)191953414(OCoLC)474273589(OCoLC)647663797(OCoLC)722602919(OCoLC)743198328(OCoLC)756546746(OCoLC)815776622(OCoLC)888794947(OCoLC)961521113(OCoLC)962719276(OCoLC)991993762(OCoLC)1055354635(OCoLC)1058138171(OCoLC)1064634313(OCoLC)1081278576(OCoLC-P)181029068(MaCbMITP)7488(Au-PeEL)EBL3338739(CaPaEBR)ebr10194153(CaONFJC)MIL209911(OCoLC)181029068(MiAaPQ)EBC3338739(EXLCZ)99100000000047949220070116d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe artificial and the natural an evolving polarity /edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman1st ed.Cambridge, MA MIT Pressc20071 online resource (341 p.)Dibner institute studies in the history of science and technologyDescription based upon print version of record.9780262026208 0262026201 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexNotions 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.Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.ScienceEuropeHistorySciencePhilosophyHistoryPhilosophy, EuropeanHistoryScience, MedievalScienceHistory.SciencePhilosophyHistory.Philosophy, EuropeanHistory.Science, Medieval.501Bensaude-Vincent Bernadette67827Newman William Royall525797MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972142003321The artificial and the natural4329423UNINA