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Autore principale: | Jalobeanu, Dana.
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Titolo: | Spiritual technologies : cider-making and natural philosophy in early modern England / Dana Jalobeanu, Oana Matei. |
Abstract: | Cider making does not strike one as much of a philosophical enterprise. However, in England, in the second part of the seventeenth-century, many natural philosophers were actively involved in it. This paper investigates the philosophical premises and methodological underpinning of this enterprise, showing that cider-making developed as a branch of applied Baconian science. We show that the grand-scale project of cider making shared a background theory of Baconian inspiration and was conceived in terms of Bacon's rules and methods of experimenting and collaborative data-sharing. With this Baconian theoretical and methodological framework, naturalists involved in this enterprise selected and tried old recipes, experimented with new ones, and turned cider-making into an early modern technology. Central to this technology was the idea that, in the process of cider-making, the naturalist manipulates the living spirits of the vegetal world, enclosing them in a bottle |
In: | Nuncius Vol. 37 (2022), p. 315-345 |
Altri autori: | Matei, Oana, (coautore.) |
Discipline: | Tecnologie diverse--Studi. |
Luoghi: | Inghilterra. |
Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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