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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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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina: | 501 |
Soggetto topico: | Science - Europe - History |
Science - Philosophy - History | |
Philosophy, European - History | |
Science, Medieval | |
Altri autori: |
Bensaude-VincentBernadette
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The artificial and the natural ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-262-30923-8 |
1-282-09911-6 | |
9786612099113 | |
0-262-26817-5 | |
1-4356-0600-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821461103321 |
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