The mindful hand : inquiry and invention from the late Renaissance to early industrialisation / edited by Lissa Roberts, Simon Schaffer, Peter Dear.

Amsterdam : Koninkliijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen ; [Bristol] : [University Presses Marketing distributor], 2007.

xxvii, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Comets and cannonballs : reading technology in a sixteenth-century library / Mary Henninger-Voss -- In a sixteenth-century goldsmith's workshop / Pamela H. Smith -- Constructive thinking : a case for dioptrics / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Between precedent and experiment : restoring the Acqua Vergine in Rome (1560-70) / Katherine W. Rinne -- Amending nature : draining the English fens / Eric H. Ash -- The Beemster Polder : conservative invention and Holland's great pleasure garden / Alette Fleischer -- Demonstration and verification in engineering : ascertaining truth and telling fictions along the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- Mapping stream engines and skill in eighteenth-century Holland / Lissa Roberts -- Wind-gun, air-gun or pop-gun : the fortunes of a philosophical instrument / Jim Bennett -- Apothecary shops, laboratories and chemical manufacture in eighteenth-century Germany / Ursula Klein -- 'The charter'd Thames' : naval architecture and experimental spaces in Georgian Britain / Simon Schaffer -- From the grand whim to the gasworks : 'philosophical fireworks' in Georgian England / Simon Werrett -- The intersection of industry and state in eighteenth-century Britain / William Ashworth -- Becoming competitive : England's papermaking apprenticeship, 1700-1800 / Leonard Rosenband -- The identity engine : printing and publishing at the beginning of the knowledge economy / Adrian Johns.

Includes bibliographical references and index.