
S. Becker – Moving Mind and Hand – 24 novembre 2021
Séminaire thématique "Les circulations techniques du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Acteurs – espaces – stratégies" - 24 novembre 2021 Moving Mind and Hand – Recruitment in Craft and Technology in 17th Brandenburg-Prussia Sebastian Becker, enseignant chercheur à l'université de Mayence Résumé In the 17th century, the economic value of craft knowledge was increasingly recognised at the European courts. A growing competition for the transfer of new technologies and technical-economic experts extended from alchemy and luxury goods to the raw material of pre-modern administration, paper. The circulation processes that emerged were highly complex. Starting with the question of who would be able to recognise the usefulness and quality of an invention or a specialist, the possibilities of adapting foreign technologies had to be examined and costs had to be calculated.…