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Wicked intelligence visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London

Title: Wicked intelligence [electronic resource] : visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London / Matthew C. Hunter.
Author: Hunter, Matthew C.
Publication: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]

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1 online resource (xv, 329 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Uniform Title

Wicked intelligence (Online)

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Wicked intelligence (Online)

Subject

Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 > Criticism and interpretation
Lely, Peter, 1618-1680 > Criticism and interpretation
Royal Society (Great Britain) > History > 17th century
Scientific illustration > England > London > History > 17th century
Art and science > England > London > History > 17th century
Art, British > England > London > 17th century
Architectural drawing > England > London > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index.

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Contents

Introduction: "Very able, very sordid, cynical, wrong headed and whimsical" -- "I resolved to throw aside all manner of hypotheses . . . and to attend wholly to what the appearances themselves would teach me" -- Knives out: thinking on, with, through, and against paper in the mid-1660s -- Pictorial intelligence: Peter Lely, experimental culture, and the parameters of painting -- Cascade, copper, collection: constellations of images in 1670s experimental philosophy -- "The wonderful elaboratory of the animal body": the Royal Society's repository at work -- The science of architecture and the architecture of science -- Conclusion.

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