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An alchemist, inventor, engineer, and natural philosopher, Drebbel fits in the vernacular maker’s knowledge tradition (Smith, Pamela, The body of the artisan: Art and experience in the scientific revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004) during a period of changing status for meteorology and alchemy.
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Keller, V. (2017). Drebbel, Cornelis. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1130-1
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