The Locksmith, the Surgeon, and the Mechanical Hand: Communicating Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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DOI: 10.1353/tech.2019.0001
Abstract: abstract:This article uses a locksmith's design for a mechanical hand in the surgeon Ambroise Paré's widely influential Oeuvres (1575) to examine the transmission of technical knowledge in early modern Europe. The article interprets Paré's chapter… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge early; knowledge; technical knowledge; early modern ... See more keywords