Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern art and sciences /

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 ima...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jardine, Nicholas (Editor ), Fay, Isla (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2014.
Temas:
Science > History.
Medicine > History.
Science > Charts, diagrams, etc.
Medicine > Charts, diagrams, etc.
History of Medicine
Sciences > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire.
Sciences > Tableaux, graphiques, etc.
Médecine > Tableaux, graphiques, etc.
history of medicine.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Medicine.
Science.
Charts, diagrams, etc.
History.
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 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.

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