Ingenuity in the Making
Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe
Published on 9. November 2021
408 pages
978-0-8229-8846-5 (ISBN)
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Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the "maker's knowledge" tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
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Richard J. Oosterhoff (Editor)
Richard J. Oosterhoff is lecturer in early modern history at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
José Ramón Marcaida (Editor)
José Ramón Marcaida is lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews, where he works on the intersections of art and science in the early modern Hispanic world. He is the author of Arte y ciencia en el Barroco español. Historia natural, coleccionismo y cultura visual and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
Alexander Marr (Editor)
Alexander Marr is professor of the history of early modern art at the University of Cambridge and a fellow and dean of disciple of Trinity Hall. He is the author of Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
Richard J. Oosterhoff is lecturer in early modern history at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
José Ramón Marcaida (Editor)
José Ramón Marcaida is lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews, where he works on the intersections of art and science in the early modern Hispanic world. He is the author of Arte y ciencia en el Barroco español. Historia natural, coleccionismo y cultura visual and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
Alexander Marr (Editor)
Alexander Marr is professor of the history of early modern art at the University of Cambridge and a fellow and dean of disciple of Trinity Hall. He is the author of Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction | Richard J. Oosterhoff
- Part I. The Natures of Matter
- 1. Spirited Matter and Ingenious Nature: Accounting for Alchemical Change | Jennifer M. Rampling
- 2. Deceiving the Senses: The Role of Vapors in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy | Doina-Cristina Rusu
- 3. Robert Boyle's Restless Gems | Michael Bycroft
- 4. Handsteine: The Generative Powers of a Mineral Artifact | Andrés Vélez-Posada
- Part II. Bodies, Labor, and Technique
- 5. Ingenuity, Sweat, and Bloodsour Work in Sixteenth-Century Mining Literature | Tina Asmussen
- 6. Calligraphy and Metamorphosis: Invention and Imitation in a Sixteenth-Century Craft | Hannah Murphy
- 7. Ingeniosa peritia: The Languages of Ingenuity in Italian Renaissance Anatomy | Viktoria von Hoffmann
- 8. The Contested Ingenia of Early Modern Anatomy: Continuities and Conflicts in Medical Training at Leiden University, 1592-1678 | Evan R. Ragland
- 9. From Ingenuity to Genius and Technique: Shifting Concepts in Eighteenth-Century Theories of Art and Craft | Marieke M. A. Hendriksen
- Color Plates
- Part III. Crafty Makers on Display
- 10. Ingenious Monks and Their Machines: Trickery and Wonder in Sculptures with Movable Parts in Pre- and Reformation-Era Europe | Christina Neilson
- 11. Ingenuity in the Garden: From the Poetics of Grafting to Divine Mathematics | Denis Ribouillault
- 12. A Charlatan's Ingenuity: Juggling, Joking, and Medical Reform in Johann Ernst Burggrav's Lamp of Life and Death | Vera Keller
- 13. New World Feathers and the Matter of Early Modern Ingenuity: Digital Microscopes, Period Hands, and Period Eyes | Stefan Hanß
- 14. Unpacking Foreign Ingenuity: The German Conquest of Artful Objects with "Indian" Provenance | Anna Grasskamp
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
