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Bachelors History University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Pamela H. Smith is an American historian of science specializing in attitudes to nature in early modern Europe , with particular attention to craft knowledge and the role of craftspeople in the Scientific Revolution. She is the Seth Low Professor of History, founding director of the Making and Knowing Project, founding director of the Center for Science and Society, and chair of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, all at Columbia University. Smith is serving a two-year term as president of the Renaissance Society of America.

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Pamela H. Smith's Published Works

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The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004) (201)
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1996) (130)
Merchants and Marvels : Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe (2002) (84)
Science on the Move: Recent Trends in the History of Early Modern Science* (2009) (58)
Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life-Casting Techniques* (2010) (46)
Art, Science, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (2006) (39)
Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge (2014) (28)
Historians in the Laboratory: Reconstruction of Renaissance Art and Technology in the Making and Knowing Project (2016) (25)
Making knowledge in early modern Europe : practices, objects, and texts, 1400-1800 (2007) (25)
Merchants & marvels : commerce, science, and art in early modern Europe (2002) (23)
In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing, and Meaning (2012) (19)
Why Write a Book? From Lived Experience to the Written Word in Early Modern Europe (2010) (18)
Science and Taste: Painting, Passions, and the New Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Leiden (1999) (17)
The matter of art : materials, practices, cultural logics, c.1250-1750 (2016) (15)
Alchemy as a Language of Mediation at the Habsburg Court (1994) (15)
2. Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking (2019) (10)
Merchants and marvels (2001) (9)
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution: Vital Spirits: Redemption, Artisanship, and the New Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2000) (8)
The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe (2014) (7)
Mirroring the World Sea Charts, Navigation, and Territorial Claims in Sixteenth-Century Spain (2013) (7)
Ritual in Early Modern Europe . By Edward Muir. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xii + 291. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-40169-0. (1998) (6)
The Making and Knowing Project: Reflections, Methods, and New Directions (2016) (6)
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (review) (2005) (5)
Itineraries of materials and knowledge in the early modern world (2015) (4)
The Codification of Vernacular Theories of Metallic Generation in Sixteenth-Century European Mining and Metalworking (2017) (3)
Schooling the Eye and Hand: Performative Methods of Research and Pedagogy in the Making and Knowing Project (2020) (3)
European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism. Anthony PagdenKeys to the Encounter: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery. Louis De Vorsey, Jr. (1995) (3)
The Matter of Ephemeral Art: Craft, Spectacle, and Power in Early Modern Europe (2020) (2)
Smoke and Silkworms: (2019) (2)
Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia (2019) (2)
Karl Appuhn.A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice. xi + 361 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. $60 (cloth). (2011) (1)
Edited volumes-merchants and marvels: Commerce, science and art in early modern europe (2002) (1)
CHAPTER 4. Knowledge in Motion: Following Itineraries of Matter in the Early Modern World (2013) (1)
Alchemy and the Science of Matter (2007) (1)
The Mirror of Alchemy: Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century (review) (1997) (1)
Nodes of Convergence, Material Complexes, and Entangled Itineraries (2019) (1)
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750 (2022) (1)
From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022) (0)
Faith, Medical Alchemy, and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (review) (2000) (0)
In this issue (2010) (0)
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (review) (2000) (0)
William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe. Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 344. $40.00 (2004) (0)
Five. Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars (2016) (0)
How to Apply for NEH Fellowships and Grants (2019) (0)
Thinking through Molds: Metal Flow and Visualizing the Unseen (2021) (0)
Sustainability in the Making and Knowing Project: From Scholarly Edition to Community Crossroads (2020) (0)
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (review) (2008) (0)
Adam Mosley, Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+354. ISBN 978-0-521-83866-5. £55.00 (hardback). (2008) (0)
Experimenting in the Material World and on Paper in sixteenth-century France (2019) (0)
Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean (eds.) Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi+274. ISBN 0-19-928878-X. £100.00 (hardback). (2008) (0)
Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation (review) (2000) (0)
"Extremely Apt at Doing Things by All Sorts of Tools" (2010) (0)
Interlude in the Laboratory (2016) (0)
Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe edited by G. Pomata and N. G. Siraisi (2010) (0)
Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300–1800. By Bert De Munck (New York, Routledge, 2018) 312 pp. $155.00 cloth $51.95 paper (2020) (0)
Two. Oeconomia Rerum et Verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire (2016) (0)
Reviews of Books:Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe (2004) (0)
Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation (review) (1998) (0)
Picturing Nature and Empire (2012) (0)
Books Received (1992) (0)
Introduction: New Directions in Making and Knowing (2016) (0)
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (review) (1996) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
The Material Life of Things Research Group (2010) (0)
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (review) (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Lorraine Daston;, Fernando Vidal (Editors).The Moral Authority of Nature. vii + 519 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. (2004) (0)
Three. The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich (2016) (0)
Sarah Blake McHam.Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance. xiii + 450 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. $75 (cloth). (2014) (0)
The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery (review) (1998) (0)
Sixteenth-Century Life-casting Techniques: experimental reconstructions based on a preserved manuscript (2014) (0)
Tracing the Movement of Knowledge across Vast Distances and Long Temporal Spans (2019) (0)
Between Nature and Art (2016) (0)
Turning Up The Mould, In Search Of The Gold (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
The Footnote: A Curious History. By Anthony Grafton. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 241 pp. $23.95, ISBN 0-674-90215-7.) (1999) (0)
Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany. By Warren Alexander Dym. Studies in Central European Histories, volume 52. Edited by, Thomas A. Brady, Jr. and Roger Chickering. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xii+218. $141.00. (2012) (0)
Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European Cities (2017) (0)
Four. The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court (2016) (0)
Eloge: Owen Hannaway, 8 October 1939–21 January 2006 (2007) (0)
Lawrence M. Principe, The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998) 339 pages. $49.00 ISBN 0-691-01678-X (1999) (0)
The Arts of Industry in the Age of the Enlightenment (review) (2011) (0)
Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300–1800 by Bert De Munck (review) (2020) (0)
Trans-Eurasian Routes of Exchange: (2019) (0)
Book Review:Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration Stanton J. Linden (1997) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Court Culture in Dresden: From Renaissance to Baroque . By Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xv + 310. 56 figs. $39.95. ISBN 0-333-98448-X. (2004) (0)
S TANTON J. L INDEN (ed.), The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxv+260. ISBN 0-521-79662-8. £16.95, $24.00 (paperback). (2005) (0)
Online bioinformatics education: An information systems approach to using stakeholder needs analysis for educational systems design heuristics (2007) (0)
Kuijpers, Maikel H.G.An archaeology of skill: metalworking skill and material specialization in early Bronze Age Central Europe. xvi, 318 pp., figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Abingdon, Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2018. £115.00 (cloth) (2020) (0)
In this issue (2005) (0)
West Indian Interlude (2016) (0)
Preface to the New Paperback Edition (2016) (0)
Alchemy, credit, and the commerce of words and things : Johann Joachim Becher at the courts of the Holy Roman Empire, 1635-82 (1990) (0)
The Matter of Art: Materials, Technologies, Cultural Logics, 1250-1650 (2014) (0)

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