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Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern arts and sciences
- Title
- Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern arts and sciences / edited by Nicholas Jardine and Isla Fay.
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, 2014.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-6570 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 233 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Charts, diagrams, etc.
- History.
- Charts.
- Diagrams.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6570
- ISBN
- 9789004263840
- 9004263845
- 9789004263857 (canceled/invalid)
- 9004263853 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013954774
- OCLC
- 857813075
- Title
- Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern arts and sciences / edited by Nicholas Jardine and Isla Fay.
- Publisher
- Leiden : Brill, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Jardine, Nicholas, editor.Fay, Isla, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6570