{"product_id":"artisanpractitioners-and-the-rise-of-pamela-o-long-9780870716096","title":"Artisan\/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600","description":"This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the \"new sciences\" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical revision of the \"Zilsel thesis,\" an influential etiological narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in bringing about the \"Scientific Revolution.\" \u003cp\u003e\"Artisan\/Practitioners\" reassesses the issue of artisanal influence from three different perspectives: the perceived relationships between art and nature; the Vitruvian architectural tradition with its appreciation of both theory and practice; and the development of \"trading zones\"--arenas in which artisans and learned men communicated in substantive ways. These complex social and intellectual developments, the book argues, underlay the development of the empirical sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides new discussion and synthesis of a theory that encompasses broad developments in European history and study of the natural world. It will be a valuable resource for college-level teaching, and for scholars and others interested in the history of science, late medieval and early modern European history, and the Scientific Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela O. Long\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870716093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870716096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oregon State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pamela O. Long","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926697640191,"sku":"9780870716096","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_88634eb1-71eb-408f-aeee-0a2f41cdfe28.jpg?v=1681084513","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/artisanpractitioners-and-the-rise-of-pamela-o-long-9780870716096","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}