Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
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Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
Harvard Art Museums , Distributed by Yale University Press, 2011
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Essays by Susan Dackerman, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Claudia Swan
"... an exhibition organized by the Harvard Art Museums ... in collaboration with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art."--T.p. verso
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-[427]) and index
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An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Durer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
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