Observing the World through Images

Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-11-25
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor233
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004263840

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Nicholas Jardine is emeritus professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His recent publications include La guerre des astronomes, 2 vols, Les Belles Lettres, 2008. Isla Fay is a research associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Diagrams, Figures and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450–1650' at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She has published on pre-modern health and disease, including an edition of early civic sanitary provisions.

Introduction: New Light on Visual Forms in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences, Isla Fay and Nicholas JardineAnalogy and Difference: A Comparative Study of Medical and Astronomical Images in Books, 1470–1550, Isabelle PantinDepicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos: George Ripley’s Wheel of Inferior Astronomy, Jennifer M. RamplingAnatomy, Bloodletting and Emblems: Interpreting the Title-Page of Nathaniel Highmore’s Disquisitio (1651), Karin EkholmThe Use of Printed Images for Instrument-Making at the Arsenius Workshop. Samuel GessnerReconstructing Vernacular Mathematics: The Case of Thomas Hood’s Sector, Katie TaylorInstruments and Illustration: The Use of Images in Edmund Gunter’s De Sectore et Radio, Hester HigtonTeaching through Diagrams: Galileo’s Dialogo and Discorsi and his Pisan Readers, Renée Raphael