Mechanism

A Visual, Lexical, and Conceptual History
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4547-5
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

In the early modern period, the mechanical philosophy emerged as a major intellectual player and the very term “mechanism” was coined. Investigating the notion of mechanism enriches our understanding of key early modern debates and offers a valuable perspective for reviewing contemporary issues. This book presents a lexical study of the usage of the term “mechanism” in seventeenth-century Britain, where it was used rather frequently in specific studies as well as in broader philosophical and theological debates. Because mechanisms in this period were closely tied to mechanical devices and to the spatial arrangements of their parts, the author also investigates the intersection between the notion of mechanism and the problem of visual representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertoloni Meli, Domenico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Über Autor(innen)

Domenico Bertoloni Meli is a Professor at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in the History and Philosophy of Science in 1988. He has received many fellowships and grants, most recently a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, worked at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, and received fellowships and grants from Indiana University, the Dibner Institute, the National Science Fioundation, the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine, and Jesus College, Cambridge.

Professor Bertoloni Meli has widespread research interests, including the mathematical and medical disciplines from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, especially mechanics and anatomy. His most recent book is Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).