Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600

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190 | Index Index Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations academies, 81, 84, 120–21, 131 Agricola, Georg, 25, 108, 109, 111 Agrippa, Camillo, 116–17, 119, 126 air-pump, 35, 36 Alberti, Leon Battista, 6, 23, 66, 69–73, 70, 74, 92, 105–6: De re aedificatoria, 69, 71–73, 81; Treatise on Painting, 70–71 alchemy, 7, 24, 26, 28, 32–33, 61, 110, 130 Alder, Max, 11–12, 18, 22 Alfonso, duke of Calabria (Alfonso II, king of Naples), 83–84 Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham), 34, 74 anatomy, 3, 51–53, 52, 55, 56–60, 57, 58, 74, 76 anti-Marxists, 24–25, 127. See also Marxism and Marxists antiquities, 5, 8, 62, 65, 69, 71, 81, 84, 92, 94, 121, 123. See also obelisk(s); ruins, ancient antiquity, 5, 6, 25, 31, 40, 41, 62, 65, 67–69, 81–83, 105, 114. See also Egypt; Vitruvius aqueducts, 85, 113, 115 Aquinas, Thomas, 32 archaeology, 81, 92, 95. See also antiquities; epigraphy architect/engineer(s), 1, 3, 63, 69, 71, 73, 82, 91, 92–93, 121, 131, 132 n1: Fontana, Domenico, 117, 119–20; Francesco di Giorgio, 41–47, 80, 84, 92; Giocondo, Giovanni, 83–85, 92, 106, 126; training of, 63–64, 76, 78, 81 architecture, 76–77, 80, 83, 92, 94, 121–23, 131: for Alberti, 69–70, 71–73; in the books of Serlio, 50–56, 54; in Vitruvius, 63–66; See also building construction; De architectura of Vitruvius; Vitruvius Arcimboldo, Giuseppe, 35–37, 38 Aretino, Pietro, 51 Aristotle and Aristotelianism, 2, 4–5, 7, 31–32, 34–35, 61, 88, 105, 114, 127, 130. See also scholasticism ars, 30, 31. See also mechanical arts; practical and technical arts arsenal(s), 8, 93, 96–107, 120, 125: of Barcelona, 99; of Innsbruck, 97–98, 98; of Venice, 96, 100–103, 102, 105–6 art. See ars; visual arts art and nature, 7–8, 9, 28–29, 30–61, 129: in Aristotle, 31–32, 34–35 artes mechanicae. See mechanical arts artisan/practitioners, 1, 3–4, 7, 21, 25, 28–29, 61, 65–66, 92, 95, 127, 132 n1: influence on the new sciences, 1, 6, 15, 24, 127–31; See also architect/ engineers; under individual names artisanal culture, 4, 5–6, 9, 10–11, 22–24, 28–29: and the world of learning, 8, 30, 50–53, 56, 62, 65, 71, 87, 113, 116–17, 127–28 Athenaeus Mechanicus, 74 Austria, 11–14, 15. See also Vienna Austro-Marxism, 11–12, 20, 22 Averlino, Antonio. See Filarete Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), 32, 74 Bacci, Andrea, 114, 116 Bacon, Francis, 37 Bacon, Roger, 32, 34, 74 Baptistery, Florentine, 66, 68, 70, 73–74, 75 Barbaro: Daniele, 121–23, 122; Marc’Antonio, 121 Barnes, Barry, 27 Barrera-Osorio, Antonio, 28 Battle of Actium, 116 Baxon, Teodoro, 101 Belvedere Torso, 52 Bennett, James A., 27 Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, 31 Bernardo, Bernardo di, 101 Biffi, Marco, 80 Index | 191 Biringuccio, Vanoccio, 25, 106, 111, 112 blast furnace, 108, 109 Bloor, David, 27 books and publication, 3, 7, 17, 38, 95, 96, 106, 110–11, 125. See also writings Borkenau, Franz, 6–7, 10, 17–18, 19, 21, 23, 127. See also Grossmann, Henryk Borromeo: Carlo, 115; Federico, 114, 115 Boyle, Robert, 27, 33, 35, 36, 130 Bracciolini, Poggio, 64 Brahe, Tycho, 3 Bramante, 87 bridges, 1, 39, 56, 72, 84, 85, 99, 113, 116 Brunelleschi, Filippo, 47, 66–69, 70–71, 73, 92 Bufalini, Leonardo, 115, 115 building construction, 1, 3, 8, 37, 65, 71, 112–13, 123. See also architecture buildings, 3, 8, 62, 65, 71, 121, 127, 128, 129. See also Palladio; Santa Maria del Fiore; Serlio Bukharin, Nicholai, 15 Caesar, Julius, 121 Calbus of Freiberg, 111 Calcar, Jan Steven van, 51 calendars, 103 caliber of guns, 97, 98, 106–7 Callon, Michel, 27 Calvo, Marco Fabio, 85–87 capitalism, 11–12, 15–17, 18, 19–20: and mining, 107, 111–12; commercial, 2, 60 ceramics, 7, 37, 78, 123, 124 Cesariano, Cesare, 87–91, 89, 92 Charles VIII, king of France, 84–85 Cicero, 5 cities, 2, 8, 93, 112, 128: ideal, 77–80. See also individual cities Clement VIII, pope, 114 clocks and timekeeping, 63, 66, 72, 92, 103, 130 clothing and textiles, 2, 37, 40, 73, 128 coffee shops, 96 Cohen, H. Floris, 22–23 coins. See numismatics collecting and collections, 26, 37 Colonna, Francesco, 38, 144 n21. See also Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Columbia University, 20–21 Columella, 111 communication between learned and skilled...