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Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle's Works
Robert Boyle’s 1664 Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours is full of experiments and observations that “enquire seriously into the Natu
Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp
This project examined the relationship between craft, curiosity, and the pursuit of natural knowledge in Antwerp during the second half of the sevente
Cabinetizing Art and Knowledge in Early Modern Northern Europe
In recent years, a vast amount of scholarship has been devoted to early modern collections and particularly to the so-called "cabinet of curiosity," d
Alchemy and a Vernacular Color Code
This Working Group chapter project considered the relationship between alchemy and European painting in the late Middle Ages. The most direct connecti
Creative Natures. St. Joachimsthal, Goldsmiths, and Metallogenesis
One of the main metallurgical research interests of the early modern period was to discover how metals and minerals were formed. Another was to attemp
Gems and the New Science: Jewellers, Travellers, and Natural Philosophers from Gassendi to Dufay
This project explored the role of gems in defining and advancing some of the many varieties of “new science” that emerged in the seventeenth and eight
Giovan Battista della Porta and Francis Bacon on Philosophical Instruments and Experimental Trials
Dana Jalobeanu's project aimed to investigate the complex and creative ways in which Francis Bacon read and used Della Porta’s Magia naturalis as a so
The Role of the Senses in Albert the Great’s Doctrine of Noetic Development
Albert’s scientific program of study, as laid out in his Commentary on the Physics, is an ordered studying of the natural sciences that leads to the p
Beauty and the Microscope: The Use, Design, and Values of Fashionable Instruments in the Enlightenment
Ian Lawson's new project investigates the fashion for microscopes, and other optical instruments, in the eighteenth century—after their initial popula
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
This project concerns the role of musical instruments and artisanal knowledge in early acoustics. It is through instruments and objects that sound, ot