Research Catalog

Title

Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.

Publication

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Pamela H., 1957-
• Meyers, Amy R. W.
• Cook, Harold J.

Description

xi, 430 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world

Uniform Title

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.

Subject

• Intellectual life > Philosophy
• Intellectual life > History
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Empiricism > Philosophy
• Empiricism > History
• Material culture > Philosophy
• Material culture > History
• Handicraft > Philosophy
• Handicraft > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : making and knowing / Harold J. Cook, Pamela H. Smith, and Amy R.W. Meyers -- Making as knowing : craft as natural philosophy / Pamela H. Smith -- From skills to wisdom : making, knowing, and the arts / Suzanne B. Butters -- Between trade and science : dyeing and knowing in the long eighteenth century / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts -- How to cure the golden vein : medical remedies as Wissenschaft in early modern Germany / Alisha Rankin -- Evidence, artisan experience, and authority in early modern England / Patrick Wallis and Catherine Wright -- American roots : techniques of plant transportation and cultivation in the early Atlantic world / Mark Laird and Karen Bridgman -- Inside the box : John Bartram and the science and commerce of the transatlantic plant trade / Joel T. Fry -- From plant to page : aesthetics and objectivity in a nineteenth-century book of trees / Lisa L. Ford -- The labor of division : cabinetmaking and the production of knowledge / Glenn Adamson -- Making lists : social and material technologies in the making of seventeenth-century British natural history / Elizabeth Yale -- The preservation of specimens and the takeoff in anatomical knowledge in the early modern period / Harold J. Cook -- Conrad Gessner on an "Ad Vivum" image / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Corals versus trees : Charles Darwin's early sketches of evolution / Horst Bredekamp -- Decay, conservation, and the making of meaning through museum objects / Mary M. Brooks -- Epilogue : making and knowing, then and now / Malcolm Baker.

Call Number

JFE 14-5252

ISBN

• 9780472119271 (alk. paper)
• 0472119273 (alk. paper)
• 9780472120185 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 0472120182 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013044073

OCLC

872646636

Title

Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.

Publisher

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Smith, Pamela H., 1957- editor.

Meyers, Amy R. W., editor.

Cook, Harold J., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-5252