Abstract This article asks how we should best historically situate processes of making and knowing in early modern luxury crafts. It focuses on the Augsburg merchant Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647) his celebrated cabinets curiosities. The methodologically argues for need to cross-fertilize scholarship ‘the body artisan’ (Pamela H. Smith) with history labour. notion European ‘artisan’ involved ‘ma...

1. Introduction Working life is increasingly in turbulence. Whole traditional professional fields disappear as new ones emerge. Within traditional professions technological and organisational development often means rapid changes in knowledge, skills, and working attitudes required from workers. All of this results in a challenge to develop vocational and professional education, and models of w...

JULY 2014 CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY 55 M any techniques have been described for correcting aphakia with inadequate capsular support. The most common IOLs that are used include anterior chamber, posterior chamber, iris-fixated, and scleral-sutured IOLs; however, there is no current agreement on the ideal technique or technology. The Artisan aphakia lens (Ophtec; marketed as the Verisys...

PURPOSE We report the postoperative results of the Artisan Hyperopia phakic intraocular lens (IOL; model 203W; Ophtec, Groningen, The Netherlands). DESIGN Prospective, nonrandomized trial. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-six eyes of 13 self-selected patients with refractive error ranging from +3.00 to +11.00 diopters (D). INTERVENTION Patients with hypermetropia were implanted with the Artisan Hypero...