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In this entry, we will concentrate on the “model” intended as a three-dimensional object used to represent in space, scaled up or down, an existing artifact or the design of an “object to be,” acknowledging and illuminating the importance models gained in the Early Modern period.
This is only one of the meanings the word took in the Early Modern period, and this plurality will be addressed below when discussing etymology and early usages. Starting with the field of architecture, where models, in the Early Modern period, play a particularly important role, this entry will look into a number of disciplines in which they carried out an epistemic function.
Despite having existed since ancient times both as devotional or ritual artifacts (e.g., in burials) and as design aids, models grew in importance as tools in the design process and for the production of knowledge more generally from the fifteenth century. This initially happened mainly in connection with...
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Valeriani, S. (2020). Models and Knowledge Production: Mechanical Arts, Natural Philosophy, and the State in Early Modern Europe. In: Jalobeanu, D., Wolfe, C.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_257-1
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