Ingenuity in the making : matter and technique in Early Modern Europe / edited by Richard J. Oosterhoff, José Ramón Marcaida, and Alexander Marr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Spirited matter and ingenious nature : accounting for alchemical change / Jennifer M. Rampling -- Deceiving the senses : the role of vapors in Francis Bacon's natural philosophy / Doina-Cristina Rusu -- Robert Boyle's restless gems / Michael Bycroft -- Handsteine : the generative powers of a mineral artifact / Andrés Vélez-Posada -- Ingenuity, sweat, and bloodsour work in sixteenth-century mining literature / Tina Asmussen -- Calligraphy and metamorphosis : invention and imitation in a sixteenth-century craft / Hannah Murphy -- Ingeniosa peritia : the languages of ingenuity in Italian Renaissance anatomy / Viktoria von Hoffmann -- The contested ingenia of Early Modern anatomy : continuities and conflicts in medical training at Leiden University, 1592-1678 / Evan R. Ragland -- From ingenuity to genius and technique : shifting concepts in eighteenth-century theories of art and craft / Marieke M. A. Hendriksen -- Ingenious monks and their machines : trickery and wonder in sculptures with movable parts in pre- and Reformation-era Europe / Christina Neilson -- Ingenuity in the garden : from the poetics of grafting to divine mathematics / Denis Ribouillault -- A charlatan's ingenuity : juggling, joking, and medical reform in Johann Ernst Burggrav's Lamp of life and death / Vera Keller -- New world feathers and the matter of Early Modern ingenuity : digital microscopes, period hands, and period eyes / Stefan Hanss -- Unpacking foreign ingenuity : the German conquest of artful objects with "Indian" provenance / Anna Grasskamp.

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