01066nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100001700041245003000058260003600088300003200124520069700156650005500853773003600908201102b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSliver, Sean  aThe emergence of texture   aJournal of the History of Ideas  a81(2), Apr, 2020: p.169-194  aCrucial to accounts of complexity is the history of the concept of emergence. Pride of place is generally given to G. E. Lewes, who in 1879 offered a theory of “emergents,” of the unpredictable and incommensurate effects which follow from the crossing of causes. This essay recovers an earlier tradition; it focuses on experiments in seventeenth-century materials science, which explain emergent properties through an appeal to microstructural “texture.” A full appreciation of the modern turn to complexity, of our own ecological embeddeness and the interrelationship of things, requires therefore a return to the warp and weft of seventeenth-century artisanal practice.- Reproduced   aAlina Szczesniak, Emergence, Food Science, Weaving  aJournal of the History of Ideas