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Science 11 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5677, pp. 1600 - 1601
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097383
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Picturing Nature, Producing Science

A review by Simon Werrett

The Body of the Artisan Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
by Pamela H. Smith
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. 377 pp. $35, £24.50. ISBN 0-226-76399-4.

Smith explores the synergy among art, craft, and science in the 16th and early 17th centuries to build an argument that in its early stages modern science owed much to the skills and knowledge of artisans and artists.
The reviewer is in the Department of History, University of Washington, 315 Smith Hall, Box 353560, Seattle, WA 98195-3560, USA. E-mail: werrett{at}u.washington.edu

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