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Reddit mentions of The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. Here are the top ones.
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One of my favorite books of the history of science in general: A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven Shapin. It's an excellent read about the establishment of the empirical authority of experimental science and the Royal Society, through the figure of Robert Boyle. The book is as much about epistemological questions as it is about historical ones, and builds a really convincing case for how knowledge is inherently social. I honestly found it really engrossing.
Leviathan and the Air-Pump, from the same author with Simon Schaeffer, is the more famous book - it's considered a seminal text in the history of science and in science & technology studies (STS). It similarly focuses on Boyle, but counterposes him with Thomas Hobbes, and is about how the philosophical grounding of modern science came to be.
Pamela Smith's The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution is also a great work about the ways that science emerged from and interacted with art and artisans' work and insights.
This is a great point. There is some great work done by historians of the scientific revolution showing how artists fueled scientific innovation. I highly recommend The Body of the Artisan.