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The mechanical arts remained subordinated, at the identical time as their status was considerably revised. Francis Bacon’s works, similar to The New Organon and New Atlantis, exemplified the turn by students to ‘reject the specific separation of science and material practice [ … ] without rejecting the prevailing hierarchy of head over hand’ (pp. 48, 50). Technicians, as we all know from the arguments of Steven Shapin, have been written out of visibility. ‘Technology’ solely turned a standard word in the second half of the 20 th century. By then the harm was carried out, and conceptual confusion meant that the time period could be utilized in either broad or slim senses, generally embracing cultural or social elements, typically reduced to mere instruments or to means-to-ends rationality. No marvel when we talk about, say, the ‘science–technology relationship’ or technological change as a driver of historical past the results are so unedifying and intellectually impoverished. Which