Laboratories of Art Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dupré, Sven (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 37
• Θέματα: History.; Arts.; Metals.; History of Science.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; History, general.; Metallic Materials.

This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. In particular, it scrutinizes epistemic exchanges between producers of the arts and alchemists. In the fifte...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• About the Authors
• Introduction; Sven Dupré
• Chapter 1 The Alchemical Art of Dyeing: The Fourfold Division of Alchemy and the Enochian Tradition; Matteo Martelli
• Chapter 2 Transmission of Alchemical and Artistic Practices and Materials in German Mediaeval and Premodern Recipe Books; Sylvie Neven
• Chapter 3 Artisanal Processes and Epistemological Debate in the Works of Leonardo da Vinci and Vannoccio Biringuccio; Andrea Bernardoni
• Chapter 4 Artificial Interventions in the Natural Form of Things: Shared Mettallogenetical Concepts of Goldsmiths and Alchemists; Henrike Haug
• Chapter 5 The Laboratories of Art and Alchemy at the Uffizi Gallery in Renaissance Florence: Some Material Aspects; Fanny Kieffer
• Chapter 6 Material and Temporal Powers at the Casino San Marco (1574-1621); Marco Berretta
• Chapter 7 Goldsmiths and Chymists:  The Activity of Artisans within Alchemical Circles; Lawrence M. Principe
• Chapter 8 Refutata per ignem: The Evidence for the Use of Thermal Analysis in Seventeenth Century European Ceramic Innovation; Morgan Wesley.