Natural Resources in Early Modern Economies of Knowledge

Edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Helge Wendt. This book investigates the epistemological dimension and the social embedding of early modern resource policies. It especially addresses the knowledge economy of two resource groups ‒ water and extracted minerals ‒ in their cultural contexts. The study of the practical dimension implies that special attention is paid to labor activities such as mining, fishing and engineering, while the investigation of the cognitive dimension concerns the codification and transmission of knowledge about terrestrial and aquatic resources, both vernacular and scientific. The contributions of this volume provide a comprehensive overview of the knowledge layers that underpinned the material and immaterial economy of the early modern period in fields such as natural history, proto-geology, metallurgy, alchemy, early hydrology, ichthyology, tidal theories, natural philosophy and cosmology. They address the multi-layered episteme of resource-related knowledge from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, and argue for the intertwining of social organization, practices (including the use of technology), and theoretical learning. The articles also point out the ecological roots and consequences of economic-epistemological activities and the shifting conceptualization of the natural resources that were exploited and valued. -- Contents: Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Justas Patkauskas: Water Knowledge Economy in Early Modern Venice. - Ovanes Akopyan and Pietro Daniel Omodeo: Cristoforo Sabbadino's Manuscript Notes on Tides. A Document on Water Knowledge and Practice in Renaissance Venice from the Marciana Library of Venice. - Omar Rodríguez Camarena: An Early Modern Controversy on Hydropolitics. The Dispute Over the Watershed of Mexico. - Alexander Schunka: Saving Water. Scarcity and Resource Management in Landlocked Territories of Early Modern Central Europe. - Florike Egmond: Gratia Dei: Marine Resources of the Northern Seas in the Albums of Adriaen Coenen, a Sixteenth-Century Dutch Practical Expert. - Barbara Orland: Who Knows? Fishery Knowledge, Ichthyological Studies, and the Migratory Life of the Rhine Salmon. - Aina Trias Verbeeck: Weaving Nets and Networks. Le Masson du Parc's Strategies for a Project on Fisheries. - Helge Wendt: Mineral Extraction from Water in Georgius Agricola's Knowledge Economy of Mining. - Francesco Luzzini: The First and Proper Companion of Mines. Water and Ore Generation in Biringuccio's "De la Pirotechnia" (1540). - Joshua Hillman: Metals and Mining in the Knowledge Economy of the Royal Society of London. - VIII,231 Seiten mit 18 Farb- und s/w-Abb., gebunden (Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte; Vol. 40/Harrassowitz Verlag 2025) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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