Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period

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• Paola Bertucci (Yale University)
• Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-17:00
• Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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Well before 1751, when the first volume of Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie was published, several encyclopedic projects on the mechanical arts were under way in Europe. This talk will show that such encyclopedic projects relied on natural history as a model for collecting information on crafts and artisans. By comparing works about artisans with works by artisans, I will discuss the political implications of creating an inter-connected, multi-volume work on the arts and crafts: a natural history of arts.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.

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