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The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and technical culture of the early modern era and to draw systematic conclusions for the writing of early modern history of science. The divisive transformation of humanist scholarly culture, the Scholastic school philosophy, as well as magic in the form of a philosophy of practice is always associated with the work of Francis Bacon. All of these essays in this volume reflect the close interaction between technical models and knowledge production in natural philosophy, natural history and epistemology. It becomes clear that the technological developments of the early modern era cannot be adequately depicted in the form of a pure history of technology but rather only as part of a broader, cultural history of the sciences. Contributors include: Todd Andrew Borlik, Arianna Borrelli, Thomas Brandstetter, Daniel Damler, Luisa Dolza, Moritz Epple, Berthold Heinecke, Dana Jalobeanu, Jürgen Klein, Staffan Müller-Wille, Romano Nanni, Jarmo Pulkkinen, Pablo Schneider, Andrés Vaccari, Benjamin Wardhaugh, Sophie Weeks, and Claus Zittel.

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[...] an excellent resource for research libraries catering to philosophers or historians. [...] Highly recommended Choice, Vol. 46, No. 10 (June 2009). The chapter by Sophie Weeks on Francis Bacon and his 'method' is the most [...] accomplished piece on Bacon that I have read in years, and it deserves to be widely noticed . [...] Arianna Borrelli's chapter on the Dutch weatherglass is likely to become a standard reference on the subject . Peter Dear, Cornell University. In: The British Journal for the History of Science , Vol. 42, No. 4 (2009).

[...] an excellent resource for research libraries catering to philosophers or historians. [...] Highly recommended Choice, Vol. 46, No. 10 (June 2009). The chapter by Sophie Weeks on Francis Bacon and his 'method' is the most [...] accomplished piece on Bacon that I have read in years, and it deserves to be widely noticed . [...] Arianna Borrelli's chapter on the Dutch weatherglass is likely to become a standard reference on the subject . Peter Dear, Cornell University. In: The British Journal for the History of Science , Vol. 42, No. 4 (2009).

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Claus Zittel, Kunsthistorisches Institut/Max Planck Institut in Florence, teaches Philosophy and German Literature at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Olsztyn in Poland. Gisela Engel, Ph.D. in English Philology (1973) is Senior Lecturer at Frankfurt University. She has edited extensively in the field of Early Modern Studies. Romano Nanni is Director of the Biblioteca Leonardiana at Vinci (Italy). He has published extensively on Leonardo´s oeuvre and early modern technology. Nicole Karafyllis is a biologist and a philosopher. She has published extensively on the ethics of technology and on the technology assessment of renewable resources.

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