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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"mechanical arts"”.
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
The ‘mechanical arts’ or artes mechanicae were first named as a part of Philosophy in Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Didascalicon (1120s). They were identified as seven arts (fabric making, armament, commerce, agriculture, hunting, medicine, and theatrics), and positioned as a parallel to the seven liberal …
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Expositions, museums, and technological display : building cultural institutions for the "inventor citizen" in the late nineteenth century United States
… establishment of a national museum dedicated to mechanical arts, technology and America's inventor citizens, even while some engineers brokered a place for technological collections to develop. Despite objections and a lack of support from the higher administration within the museums, mechanical …
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Practices of science and political economy between the State of Milan and the Italian Republic (1760s-1805)
… and Italian Republics. It is structured in four parts, corresponding to the themes of "appropriations", "technologies", "spaces" and "soils". Each of these parts comprises of two chapters, with the exception of the last one on "soils". Part I, named "Appropriations", explores how the Società …
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
… the scholarship of medical humanism and the mechanical arts. Finally, I explore the concurrent development of early nineteenth-century anatomy and philology in Leonardo Targa’s editorial work on De medicina, showing that a focus on his practices of dissection of texts and bodies reveals …