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Introduction: Categories and key words: Local meaning in long-termhistory Chapter 1: Openness and contexts of authorship: Separate traditionsof praxis and material production in Greek and Roman antiquity Chapter 2:Secrecy and esoteric knowledge in the "occult" traditions of late antiquityChapter 3: Handing down craft knowledge: Craft transmission and the medievalorigins of intellectual property Chapter 4: Power, patronage and theauthorship of ars: From mechanical know-how to mechanical knowledge in thelast scribal age Chapter 5: Esoterism, openness, and utilitarian efficacy:The syncretic values of neoplatonism, alchemy and related traditions Chapter6: Openness and authorship in the sixteenth century: I: mining, metallurgy,and the military arts Chapter 7: Openness and authorship in the sixteenthcentury: II: Architecture, the decorative arts, and theaters of machinesEpilogue: Values of transmission and the emergence of the new science