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Identifying the unifying purpose of these two hefty volumes is not as easy as one might wish. The Latin title implies that this book is about the manifold and highly significant interactions of scientia (epistêmê) and ars (technê) in their classical and early modern senses. The German title suggests, very differently, that the book studies the reception and communication of ‘scientific’ knowledge, old and new, in the ‘arts’ of literature, painting, and music, using both key terms in their modern senses. A lengthy editorial prologue introduces another major agenda—tracing changing conceptions of natura—with reference to a plenary lecture originally delivered at the conference from which the collection derives but unfortunately published elsewhere (Thomas Leinkauf, ‘Der Natur-Begriff im 17. Jahrhundert und zwei seiner Interpretamente’, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, xxiii (2000), 399–418). Introductions prefaced to some (but not all) of the main sections add further agendas of their own, notably a recurrent reference to C.P. Snow's notion of ‘the two cultures’ and John Brockman's more recent call for a ‘third culture’ to mediate between them.
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