"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical wr

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why,

"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical wr

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came t

Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteent