The Openness of Knowledge
An Ideal and Its Context in 16th-Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4024828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela O Long (0000-0002-7842-2209, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 318 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.1991.0096 |
| OpenAlex | W4376543910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The scientific societies of the 17th century emphasized the importance of openness for scientific methodology. A significant goal was to facilitate communication among appropriate persons interested in the new experimental philosophy.' My underlying presupposition in this article is that the explicit endorsement of openness in the natural sciences and its association with empiricism were significant events in intellectual history and in the development of scientific methodology. Openness was by no means universally accepted as an approach to empirical knowledge in the early modern period. Practitioners within the highly respected discipline of alchemy, for instance, usually endorsed esoteric transmission to a small group of initiates. How then
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics) · Openness to experience · Political science · Sociology · The arts · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
Restoring the Garden of Eden in England’s Green and Pleasant Land
Destilação no século XVI
Ownership of mines and taxation in Castilian laws, from the middle ages to the early modern period
The Craft of Premodern European History of Technology
A Crooked Path
Aristotle and the People
Information Technology and Economic Change
Literary Technology and Typographic Culture
The book as instrument
Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes
Gentlemen in, Genuine Knowledge out“? Zum Status wissenschaftlicher Normen für die Erkenntnissicherung
A place of great trust to be supplied by men of skill and integrity’
Creating Space
The Possibilities of the Land
Introduction
De Re Geometrica
The Boundaries of Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |