The Handmaid to the Arts ...
Author | : Robert Dossie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1764 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Dossie's publications in chemistry and other useful arts exhibit this change in presentation. In The Handmaid to the Arts, his book about "materia pinctoria," he used a form typical for books about materia medica. The contents are grouped according to techniques employed as well as by the media to which they might be applied. Within that framework, working from the general to the more specific, Dossie included materials and processes involving detailed recipes, with annotations and directions for appropriate use. In a format that seems almost Linnean at times, The Handmaid to the Arts included information about coloring materials--pigments, dyes, and enamels--as well as coloring techniques. The bringing together of all recipes for one color, or all recipes containing or used for a specific material, simplified and clarified the task of the reader. For the nonspecialist this was, as Dossie stated, improved consumerism; the order would have aided experimental work as well, but this is left unsaid. Source: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/lowengard/C_Chap05.html#5.