Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern arts and sciences
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Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern arts and sciences
Brill, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Originally published as vol. 18. nos. 1-2 (2013) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine" -- T.p. verso
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Description
The well-illustrated articles in Observing the World through Images offer insights into the uses of images in astronomy, mathematics, instrument-making, medicine and alchemy, highlighting shared forms as well as those peculiar to individual disciplines. Themes addressed include: the processes of image production and communication; the transformation of images through copying and adaptation for new purposes; genres and traditions of imagery in particular scientific disciplines; the mnemonic and pedagogical value of diagrams; the relationship between text and image; and the roles of diagrams as tools to think with.
Contributors include: Isabelle Pantin, Jennifer Rampling, Samuel Gessner, Renee Raphael, Karin Ekholm, Hester Higton, and Katie Taylor.
Table of 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, Renee Raphael
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