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Ingenuity in the Making
Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe
Ingenuity in the Making offers a cornucopia of new insights into the ways in which early modern women and men attributed powerful qualities to the processes of nature and the acts of their own bodies and minds. It expands the notion of ingenuity from its narrow definition as intellectual creativity into the much broader realm of mechanical, technical, and perceptual skills, and thus sheds new light on makers and innovators outside the accepted notion of artists who were still struggling for social recognition and institutional acceptance.
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Richard J. Oosterhoff is lecturer in early modern history at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
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José Ramón Marcaida is lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews, where he works on the intersections of art and science in the early modern Hispanic world. He is the author of Arte y ciencia en el Barroco español. Historia natural, coleccionismo y cultura visual and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
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Alexander Marr is professor of the history of early modern art at the University of Cambridge and a fellow and dean of disciple of Trinity Hall. He is the author of Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius and coauthor of Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe.
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