DDRIG: Reassembling Art, Science, and Technology: Goldsmithing, and the Making of Objects during the Renaissance and its Impact on Modern Science and Technology

这篇博士论文改进赠款支持一个项目，该项目专注于文艺复兴时期金匠开发的一些无处不在的、必不可少的、但被忽视的日常技术和物品。重点是日常技术，如螺丝和其他金属加工必不可少的紧固技术是如何在15世纪和16世纪发展起来的。通过这样做，这个项目的目的是更好地了解日常技术与现代科学的出现、工业革命和技术进步的关系。这项研究在此阐明了日常技术对科学技术进步和现代社会发展的关键作用。通过对博物馆物品和工具的实践和近距离研究与对书籍、绘画和其他图像的深入历史分析相结合，这个项目考察了金匠在开发和使用新颖的紧固技术和技术方面的作用，并将探索这些技术发展如何揭示更大的历史发展，包括精密金工、科学仪器制造和工业工程的兴起；这些发展都对现代科学的兴起和工业革命至关重要。该项目的结果将通过会议报告、开放获取出版物、展览和本科生教学进行交流。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant supports a project that focuses on some of the ubiquitous, essential, but overlooked pieces of everyday technologies and objects developed by goldsmiths during the Renaissance. The focus is on how everyday technologies such as screws and other fastening technologies essential for metalworking were developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In doing so, this project aims to better understand everyday technologies in relation to the emergence of modern science, the industrial revolution, and technological advancements. This research hereby illustrates the key role everyday technologies for the advancement of science and technology, and for the development of modern society. Through a combination of the hands-on and close study of museum objects and tools with an in-depth historical analysis of books, paintings, and other images, this project examines the role of goldsmiths in developing and using novel fastening technologies and techniques, and it will explore how such technological developments shed light on larger historical developments, including the rise of precision metalworking, scientific instrument-making, and industrial engineering; these developments were all crucial to the rise of modern science and the industrial revolution. The results of this project will be communicated through conference presentations, open-access publications, exhibitions, and undergraduate teaching.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.