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Observing the World Through Images: Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences

By Isla Fay , Nicholas Jardine

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2013
ISBN
9004263845, 9789004263840
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14347490 bytes)
Pages
233\241
Time added
2022-08-17 10:23:07

Description

Through well-illustrated essays, Observing the World through Images explores the making and uses of printed diagrams and pictures in the practice and communication of early-modern sciences and medicine. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: New Light on Visual Forms in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences Isla Fay and Nicholas Jardine* Analogy and Difference: A Comparative Study of Medical and Astronomical Images in Books, 1470–1550 Isabelle Pantin* Depicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos: George Ripley’s Wheel of Inferior Astronomy Jennifer M. Rampling* Anatomy, Bloodletting and Emblems: Interpreting the Title-Page of Nathaniel Highmore’s Disquisitio (1651) Karin Ekholm* The Use of Printed Images for Instrument-Making at the Arsenius Workshop Samuel Gessner* Reconstructing Vernacular Mathematics: The Case of Thomas Hood’s Sector Katie Taylor* Instruments and Illustration: The Use of Images in Edmund Gunter’s De Sectore et Radio Hester Higton Teaching through Diagrams: Galileo’s Dialogo and Discorsi and his Pisan Readers Renée Raphael* Index of Names

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