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The Forgetting of Fire: An Archaeology of Technics - Paul Ferguson - 09-29-2023
Thomas A. Doerksen
"This dissertation explores how the European system of knowledge in the sixteenth century transformed into the system of knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that we now call science. Via a series of case studies focusing on the theme of fire, it shows that the former system of knowledge was based on immediate experience and participation in natural realities, while the latter, that of science, explicitly turns away from human experience and natural realities and towards its own technologies and instruments. Our line of approach to this problem is to analyze the scientists’ attitudes toward their own tools and toward natural beings. The first case study looks at the attitudes and practices of the sixteenth century alchemist Paracelsus..."
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/9664/