The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman
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| Titolo: | The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman |
| 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 NewmanWilliam R. <1955-> |
| 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. |
| ISBN: | 9786612099113 |
| 9780262309233 | |
| 0262309238 | |
| 9781282099111 | |
| 1282099116 | |
| 9780262268172 | |
| 0262268175 | |
| 9781435606005 | |
| 1435606000 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911142985203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.