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Observing the World through Images : Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brill,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 SectorKatie 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.