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Title

Picturing the scientific revolution / Volker R. Remmert ; Translated by Ben Kern.

Author

Remmert, Volker R., 1966-

Publication

Philadelphia : Saint Josephs University Press, [2011], ©2011.

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Description

295 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ; v. 4

Uniform Title

• Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung. English
• Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series v. 4.

Alternative Title

Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung.

Subject

• 1600-1699
• Geschichte 1600-1700
• Scientific illustration > History > 17th century
• Science > Europe > History > 17th century
• Illustration of books > Europe > History > 17th century
• Frontispiece > History > 17th century
• Title pages > History > 17th century
• Drawing > History > Europe > 17th century
• Art and science > History > 17th century
• Science > history
• Religion > history

Genre/Form

• History
• Illustrated works.

Note

• "This English translation of the German text published in 2005 corrects some errors of fact, and some passages have been slightly abridged: in recompense, a few additional illustrations have been included"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1 Introduction: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Title Engravings -- 1.1. On the conceptual framework: mathematical sciences, legitimization, and visual communication -- 1.2. On pictures -- 1.3. Approaches to title engravings -- 1.4. Concluding remarks -- What of the Scientific Revolution? -- ch. 2 Catholic Biblical Exegesis and the Origins of the Galileo Affair: The Engraved Title Page of Clavius's Opera mathematica (1612) -- 2.1. The established facts: 1610 to 1616 -- 2.2. Christoph Clavius S.J. (1538-1612) -- 2.3. Catholic Biblical Exegesis between the Fourth Session of the Council of Trent in 1546, and 1616 -- 2.4. Copernican Theory and Catholic Exegesis -- 2.5. "Sun, stand thou still": Anti-Copernican Biblical Exegesis and the Engraved Title Page of Clavius' Opera mathematica -- 2.6. Implications of the Interpretation -- 2.7. Conclusion -- ch. 3 The Dispute over the World Systems: Visualizations in the Copernican Debate of the 17th Century -- 3.1. Johannes Kepler and John Wilkins: variations of Brahe's "Quid si sic?" -- 3.2. Galileo and the reception of the iconography of the Dialogus de systemate of mundi of 1635 -- 3.3. The Unity of Knowledge: Jesuit Worldviews -- 3.3.1 The Unity of Knowledge I the Frontispiece of Chistopher Scheiner's Rosa ursina (1630) -- 3.3.2 The Unity of Knowledge II the Frontispiece of Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Almagestum novum (1651) -- 3.4. In Conclusion: the world of title pictures, worldviews and symbols -- ch. 4 Visual Patterns of Legitimization: The Mathematical Sciences, War and Trade -- 4.1. The mathematical sciences and war -- 4.2. The visible context: the mathematical sciences and war -- 4.3. Visualizing Profit: the mathematical sciences and trade -- ch. 5 The Visual Legitimization of Astronomy during the 16th and 17th Centuries: Atlas, Hercules and Tycho's Nose -- 5.1. Johannes Bayer's use of Atlas and Hercules -- 5.2. Atlas and Hercules: the story of an encounter -- 5.3. Tycho Brahe and the use of images -- 5.4. Brahe's legacy: Atlas and Hercules as representatives of the old and the new astronomy -- 5.5. Conclusion: newness, power and images -- ch. 6 Picturing the Founders: Inventing a Visual Tradition for Astronomy in the 17th Century -- 6.1. Tycho Brahe and the invention of a visual tradition for astronomy -- 6.2. One picture and three authors: Nicolaus Mulerius, Adriaan Metius and Philip Lansbergen -- 6.3. The heritage in the Netherlands: Andreas Cellarius and Jan Luyts -- 6.4. Conclusion: Pictures, migrating titles, traditions and meanings -- ch. 7 Lightheartedly Playing with Pictures: Jesuit Authors' Visual Patronage Strategies -- 7.1. Christoph Scheiner, and the art of visual homage -- 7.2. Mario Bettini: putting the garden of the mathematical sciences on the s̀tage' of title pictures -- 7.3. Kaspar Schott: Princes and gardens -- 7.4. Francesco Eschinardi: playing with tradition and the usefulness of the p̀alle' -- 7.5. Conclusion: books, pictures, and playfulness in the garden -- ch. 8 Concluding Observations.

ISBN

• 9780916101671
• 0916101673

LCCN

^^2010042509

OCLC

• 670248222
• SCSB-12555210

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Harvard Library