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Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience, discourse and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which wit acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, and what were the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
Richard J. Oosterhoff is Lecturer in Early Modern history at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Jose Ramón Marcaida is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews, UK. Alexander Marr is reader in the history of early modern art at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.
The book gives a great overview of the different uses and approaches to ingenuity in early modern Europe and may be of interest for historians and philosophers alike. In addition, the book is well written, by leading scholars in their fields, and relies on very relevant sources.