History of technology. Vol. 31, 2012 /

History of technology. Vol. 31, 2012 /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 167 pages)
Language:English
Series:History of technology series
History of technology series.
Subject:
Technology -- History.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Europe -- History.
Technological innovations.
Technology.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Europe.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11167670
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Other authors / contributors:Inkster, Ian.
ISBN:1441126775
9781441126771
9781441157553
1441157557
9781441152794
1441152792
1350019135
9781350019133
1283853442
9781283853446
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:New work on early modern Europe has now opened up the hidden avenues that link changes of technologies with a complex of cognitive, institutional, spatial and cultural elements. It is true that all divisions of history wish to incorporate all other divisions unto themselves, but in the essays of our first collection there are specific cases and analyses clearly delineated to show how technologies and systems for the production, reproduction and representation of technological changes emerged out of fundamental aspects of European society and mentality. The question must be: How far were such f.
Other form:Print version: History of technology. Vol. 31, 2012. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 9781441152794
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; HalfTitle; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Contributors; 1 Karel Davids (Afdeling Geschiedenis VU University, Amsterdam): Introduction: 'Useful Knowledge' Reconsidered; 2 Pamela O. Long (Independent Historian): Trading Zones: Arenas of Exchange during the Late-Medieval/Early Modern Transition to the New Empirical Sciences; TRADING ZONES; ARSENALS: SITES OF INNOVATION AND EXCHANGE; MINES AND ORE-PROCESSING SITES; THE CITY
  • ROME IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; CONCLUSION
  • 3 Simona Valeriani (London School of Economics): Three-dimensional Models as 'In-between-objects'
  • The Creation of In-between Knowledge in Early Modern Architectural PracticeINTRODUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS IN ARCHITECTURE; A CASE STUDY: CHRISTOPHER WREN'S USE OF MODELS; CONCLUSIONS: MODELS EMBODYING AND CREATING IN-BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 4 Lissa Roberts (University of Twente): The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Embodiment, Mobility, Learning and Knowing; FROM 'PRODUCTION AND DIFFUSION' TO THE CIRCULATION OF EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE
  • FROM EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE TO LEARNING, KNOWING AND DOINGIS FOCUSING ON KNOWLEDGE ENOUGH?; CONCLUSION; 5 Karel Davids (Afdeling Geschiedenis VU University, Amsterdam): Gatekeeping. Who Defined 'Useful Knowledge' in Early Modern Times?; INTRODUCTION; CHANGING CONCEPTS OF USEFULNESS; GATEKEEPERS; DECLINING SUPPORT FOR A BROAD DEFINITION; TURNING TO A NARROW DEFINITION; CONCLUSION; 6 Ian Inkster (Nottingham Trent University, UK): Introduction. Patent Agency: Problems and Perspectives
  • 7 David Pretel (University of Cambridge) and Patricio Sáiz (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Patent Agents in the European Periphery: Spain (1826-1902)INTRODUCTION; THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH PATENT SYSTEM AS A HYBRID INSTITUTION; PATENT AGENTS IN SPAIN DURING THE FIRST INDUSTRIALIZATION PROCESS; THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF AGENCY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST GLOBALIzATION; THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AGENTS ACTIVITY; CONCLUSION
  • 8 Ian Inkster (Nottingham Trent University, UK): Highly Fraught with Good to Man: Patent Organisation, Agency, and Useful and Reliable Knowledge in British Machinofacture Circa 1780-1851 and BeyondINTRODUCTION; PATENT AGENCY. THE UNREFORMED SYSTEM INBRITA IN PRIOR TO 1851; CUNNING ARTIFICERS: URBAN SITES AND AGENCIES IN BIRMINGHAM PRIOR TO 1851; URBAN SITE AND AGENCY: ALEXANDER PARKES, BIRMINGHAM AND THE WORLD; CONCLUDING POINTS. AGENTS, INSTITUTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE; 9 Anna Guagnini (Università di Bologna): Patent Agents in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Themes and Perspectives

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