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• W4376543910 abstract "The Openness of Knowledge: An Ideal and Its Context in 16th-Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy PAMELA O. LONG The scientific societies of the 17th century emphasized the impor­ tance of openness for scientific methodology. A significant goal was to facilitate communication among appropriate persons interested in the new experimental philosophy.1 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 methodol­ ogy. 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 Dr. Long is working on a book concerning the issues ofopenness, secrecy, authorship, and intellectual property in pre-17th-century writings on the practical and military arts. She wishes to thank especially the New York Metropolitan Seminar in the History of Technology, including George Saliba, Gustina Scaglia, Thomas B. Settle, Alice Stroup, Marjorie Boyer, Clare Vincent, Bruce Chandler, Nicholas Adams, and Robert Mark. Over the years this seminar has provided a lively and critical forum ofdiscussion for the ongoing research of which this article is a part. She gratefully acknowledges the support of National Science Foundation grant SES-8607112, and a summer 1989 stipend from the Forschungsinstitut fur Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Deut­ sches Museum, Munich. She also thanks the Bergakademie in Freiberg for providing microfilm. Aspects of the research were presented at the 1988 SHOT meeting in Wilmington, Delaware; at a 1989 seminar directed by Owen Hannaway at the Folger Institute, Washington, D.C.; and at the 1989 International Congress of History of Science in Hamburg and Munich, made possible by a National Research Council travel grant. The article has been greatly improved by the comments and criticism of Robert Gordon, Dennis Romano, Nicholas Adams, Owen Hannaway, the other members of the Folger seminar, and the T&C reviewers. 'See W. E. Knowles Middleton, The Experimenters: A Study of the Accademia del Cimento (Baltimore, 1971), p. 91, where the academy’s statement of purpose includes the hope that others would be encouraged to repeat experiments “with the greatest rigor”; that they wished “for nothing else but a free communication from the various Societ­ ies . . .”; that, when members repeated the experiments of others, they “always cited© 1991 by the Society for the History of Technology. All rights reserved. 0040-165X791/3202-0004$01.00 318 The Openness ofKnowledge 319 did the opposite value of openness become so central to the stated methodology of experimental philosophy? Herein I suggest that a particular group of 16th-century authors on mining and metallurgy made an important contribution to such a viewpoint. I further argue that the views expressed in their writings emerged from a social and economic context that shaped authorship in very specific ways. This article constitutes a study of the practice of authorship, not the practice of science or technology per se. Openness as a stated value and openness in practice can be two very different things. A clearly written treatise is open only to those who are literate and can read the particular language in which it is written. A craft procedure can be described in writing, but often it is truly accessible only to those who have practiced the technique with their own hands. Steven Shapin’s recent essay on experiment within the Royal Society underscores the point that openness can be a highly complex matter, that it can depend on differences between private and public space, on degrees of access, and on the social status of participants.2 Alice Stroup’s work shows that the ideal of openness sometimes conflicted with secrecy and exclusionary practices in the Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences.3 Recent investigations and controversies illustrate the point that the ideals of both openness and accurate credit of authorship within science are sometimes very far indeed from the realities of scientific practice.4 the authors”; and, finally, that, from the first days of the society, they had always shared the experiments with anyone passing through who wanted some account. For..." @default.
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