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CLERICUZIO ANTONIO
(syllabus)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FROM THE RENAISSACE TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
THE COURSE IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS.
THE FIRST DEALS WITH: HUMANISM AND SCIENCE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE RENAISSANCE;
TRAVELS, NAVIGATION, TRADE AND SCIENCE; PATRONAGE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENCE.
THE SECOND PART DEALS WITH:
THE ORIGIN OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES;
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE: BOOKS, SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION, SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (17TH AND 18TH C.): MACHINES, CHEMISTRY, METALLURGY.
(reference books)
Besides the texts to be provided during the course, one book for each part:
-Part 1:
W. EAMON, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Princeton University Press, 1994.
B. GILLE, LEONARDO E GLI INGEGNERI DEL RINASCIMENTO FELTRINELLI, MILANO.
G. OLMI, L'INVENTARIO DEL MONDO, IL MULINO, BOLOGNA.
Part 2:
S. SHAPIN and S. SCHAFFER, LEVIATHAN AND AIR PUMP, PRINCETON U.P.
C. WEBSTER, The great Instauration, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, chapters 1,2,3,5.
C. MAFFIOLI, LA VIA DELLE ACQUE, Olschki, FIRENZE
Part 1:
W. EAMON, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Princeton University Press, 1994.
B. GILLE, LEONARDO E GLI INGEGNERI DEL RINASCIMENTO FELTRINELLI, MILANO.
G. OLMI, L'INVENTARIO DEL MONDO, IL MULINO, BOLOGNA.
Part 2:
S. SHAPIN and S. SCHAFFER, LEVIATHAN AND AIR PUMP, PRINCETON U.P.
C. WEBSTER, The great Instauration, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, chapters 1,2,3,5.
C. MAFFIOLI, LA VIA DELLE ACQUE, Olschki, FIRENZE
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