thinkers and tinkerers

Italian translation: menti e mani (creative)

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English term or phrase:thinkers and tinkerers
Italian translation:menti e mani (creative)
Entered by: AdamiAkaPataflo

09:27 Apr 21, 2017
English to Italian translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
English term or phrase: thinkers and tinkerers
Noto che questi due termini appaiono spesso accoppiati, come per esempio qui:

The origins of the Industrial Revolution lay in the scientific speculations and day-to-day innovations of thousands of Western European thinkers and tinkerers, in a remarkable display of mutuality between theory and practice.

Enslaved thinkers and tinkerers in antebellum days were forced to assign their invention rights to their master because of a citizenship technicality in the patent application oath.

Capisco che thinkers si riferisce più a chi lavora con la mente e tinkerers a chi mette le mani in pasta. Il primo lo tradurrei con pensatori, ma per il secondo oltre ad "amante del fai da te" non mi viene in mente nulla e mi servirebbe qualcosa di non troppo lungo dato che lo devo affiancare a pensatori. Qualche idea?
Grifone
Italy
menti e mani (creative)
Explanation:
un'idea
nella seconda frase potrebbe anche diventare "chi ideava e/o metteva a punto qualcosa di nuovo"
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AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 20:18
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4menti e mani (creative)
AdamiAkaPataflo
4Teorici e sperimentatori
Valentina Casorati
3pensatori e creatori
Silvia Pellacani


  

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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
menti e mani (creative)


Explanation:
un'idea
nella seconda frase potrebbe anche diventare "chi ideava e/o metteva a punto qualcosa di nuovo"

AdamiAkaPataflo
Germany
Local time: 20:18
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Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 50

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  P.L.F. Persio: o come si diceva un tempo: il braccio e la mente.
2 mins
  -> hehe, quando si lavorava duro ;-) "mano" mi dà l'idea dello smanettare (appunto) su un qualcosa... grazie, stelàsa!

agree  Silvia Pellacani
20 hrs
  -> grazie, Silvioli'! :-)

agree  Magda Falcone
2 days 19 mins
  -> grazie, Magda! :-)

agree  tradu-grace: :-)
3 days 3 hrs
  -> mersì bocù, tradu-graziosa ;-)
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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Teorici e sperimentatori


Explanation:
"Tinkerer" letteralmente è qualcuno che armeggia o "smanetta", nel senso che si applica in qualcosa a livello amatoriale.
In questo caso è in senso più lato...


Example sentence(s):
  • The first definition of tinkerer in the dictionary is an unskilled person who tries to fix things. Other definition of tinkerer is a person who enjoys working with machines and their parts, esp in order to fix or improve them. (...)
Valentina Casorati
Italy
Local time: 20:18
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
pensatori e creatori


Explanation:
"Un altro esempio era il modello tardo medioevale della produzione artigianale, che la prima rivoluzione industriale ha rotto (“artigiani, operai specializzati, corporazioni”). Un modello in cui “i lavoratori erano contemporaneamente **pensatori e creatori**” (come diceva anche Marx)." http://tempofertile.blogspot.it/2014/03/michel-bauwens-lemer...

"pensatori e creatori" https://www.google.it/search?q="pensatori e creatori"

Silvia Pellacani
Italy
Local time: 20:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 6
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