Chapter Tecnica, lavoro, rivoluzione scientifica
Abstract
In the early modern era new scientific and philosophical conceptions revolutionized the established picture of culture, and marked a strong historical discontinuity. The essay focuses on the role played by artisans, alchemists, pharmacists, crafsmen in the formation of the new science, and on the impact of popular culture on the new philosophy. A specific attention is devoted to Giordano Bruno’s and Francis Bacon’s views relating to a new ideology of manual work, that was contrary to the traditional, contemplative knowledge. The essay demonstrates that the Scientific Revolution also produced the overthrow of the identification of mechanical, manual and productive arts with low, worthless human activities.
Keywords
mechanical arts; Scientific revolution; artisanal epistemologyDOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.56ISBN
9791221503197, 9791221503197Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2024Series
Studi e saggi, 257Classification
General and world history