The Epistemology of Practical Knowledge

Valleriani, Matteo

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“…As it is well known, writing in vernacular was a way to reach a different audience, usually more technology oriented and less connected to the classic academic milieu. This shift in the content of the treatises also seems to have been a decisive characteristic 38 . The demonstration for this is the identification of an edition as disruptive that was published in Spanish in 1535 and authored by Francisco Faleiro (hdl.handle.net/21.11103/sphaera.101182).…”

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“…The editions that allowed this knowledge to become disruptive, however, are not necessarily the translations into vernacular. An interesting example is the first (Latin) edition of Oronce Fine’s Cosmographia in 1532 (hdl.handle.net/21.11103/sphaera.101190) and its second edition ten years later 38 . These editions appear to have been disruptive, and indeed starting seven further editions were issued between 1551 and 1587, three of which were in French, one in Italian, and further two in Latin.…”

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Evolution and transformation of early modern cosmological knowledge: a network study

Zamani

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We investigated the evolution and transformation of scientific knowledge in the early modern period, analyzing more than 350 different editions of textbooks used for teaching astronomy in European universities from the late fifteenth century to mid-seventeenth century. These historical sources constitute the Sphaera Corpus. By examining different semantic relations among individual parts of each edition on record, we built a multiplex network consisting of six layers, as well as the aggregated network built from the superposition of all the layers. The network analysis reveals the emergence of five different communities. The contribution of each layer in shaping the communities and the properties of each community are studied. The most influential books in the corpus are found by calculating the average age of all the out-going and in-coming links for each book. A small group of editions is identified as a transmitter of knowledge as they bridge past knowledge to the future through a long temporal interval. Our analysis, moreover, identifies the most impactful editions. These books introduce new knowledge that is then adopted by almost all the books published afterwards until the end of the whole period of study. The historical research on the content of the identified books, as an empirical test, finally corroborates the results of all our analyses.

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Evolution and transformation of early modern cosmological knowledge: a network study

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“…Recent scholarship in the history of science has shown that the rise of a new knowledge culture in early modern Europe benefited from the accumulation, structuring, and valuation of practical knowledge (including tacit and embodied knowledge). Scholarship on artisanal epistemologies in particular has called into question traditional distinctions between the hand and the mind as well as between theory and practice (Roberts, Schaffer, and Dear 2007;Smith and Schmidt 2007;Smith 2004;Smith 2009;Valleriani 2017;Long 2012;Dupré, De Munck, and Clarke 2012;Dupré and Göttler 2017). Moreover, recent scholarship has examined how and why knowledge was codified and visualized (Smith and Beentjes 2010;Smith 2010;Harkness 2007;Long 2001).…”

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Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe

Dietz

Dupré²

2019

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In Cesare Ripa's famous and often translated anthology of personifications, Studio (to learn) is described as a young man (un Giouane) in the original Italian edition (see fig. 1, above). In this image from the eighteenth-century English edition, the learning of youths is represented as an activity characterized by solitude: reading a book on one's own. The cock on the left functions as a symbol for the diligence of such isolated young learners (Ripa 1603; Ripa 1709; Ripa 1971). Ripa's personification represents youthful learning as quite the opposite of the collective production of knowledge in the laboratory, and the technologies of learning in the workshop or on the shop floor. In the early modern period, the "studio" referred to a place for reading and drawing surrounded by books, spatially removed from the workshop or "laboratory" in which manual work was performed (Dupré 2014).Yet, recent scholarship has shown that practical knowledgecollectively obtained in workshops or laboratoriesbecame increasingly characteristic of the dominant knowledge cultures

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“…Andrews (), (2015); Ash (), (); Ash (); Bertucci (); Dupré and Lüthy (); Dupré (); Harkness (); Klein and Spary (); Klein (); Leong and Rankin (); Roberts, Schaffer, and Dear (); Smith and Findlen (); Smith and Schmidt (); Smith, Meyers, and Cook (); Valleriani (); Van Damme ().…”

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Practical knowledge and empire in the early modern Iberian world. Towards an artisanal turn

Sánchez

2019

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Several fields of research associated with the history of the early modern Iberian world have experienced a significant boost in recent decades: Iberian science as it relates to the Atlantic world, the history of European colonial empires, and the study of knowledge production in Latin American cultures. This expansion has coincided with a renewed interest of historians of the early modern period in practical knowledge and artisanal cultures. This paper presents an updated historiographic review of both lines of research as well as of their close interconnections. In addition, it offers a re-interpretation of Iberian imperial science in the context of the European maritime expansion through the lens of artisanal epistemology. K E Y W O R D S early modern period, empirical knowledge, Europe, Ibero-Atlantic science, maritime culture YOUNG SCHOLARS LECTURE ESHS 2018

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The Epistemology of Practical Knowledge

Cited by 13 publications

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Evolution and transformation of early modern cosmological knowledge: a network study

Evolution and transformation of early modern cosmological knowledge: a network study

Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe

Practical knowledge and empire in the early modern Iberian world. Towards an artisanal turn

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