Description |
220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Note |
Based an papers presented at a symposium held at the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 1978, Co-sponsored the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology. |
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"Folger books." |
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Based an papers presented at a symposium held at the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 1978, Co- sponsored the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
Contents |
Science and the arts in the Renaissance : the search for truth and certainty, old and new / Alistair C. Crombie -- Medicine, philosophy, and humanism in Renaissance Italy / Jerome L. Bylebyl -- Art and science : the Paracelsian vision / P.M. Rattansi -- The science of sound and musical practice / Claude V. Palisca -- Science and navigation in Renaissance England / John W. Shirley -- The involvement of artists in Renaissance science / James Ackerman -- How plants and animals were studied in the mid-sixteenth century / F. David Hoeniger -- The organism as a symbol : an innovation of art / Philip C. Ritterbush -- The Renaissance development of scientific illustration / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. -- Diagrams and dynamics : mathemetical perspectives on Edgerton's thesis / Michael S. Mahoney. |
Subject |
Science and the arts.
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Science and the arts. |
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Arts, Renaissance.
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Arts, Renaissance. |
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Science, Renaissance.
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Science, Renaissance. |
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Shirley, John W., 1908-1988.
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Hoeniger, F. David.
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Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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Other Form: |
Online version: Science and the arts in the Renaissance. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; London : Associated University Presses, 1985 (OCoLC)567779551 |
ISBN |
091801669X |
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9780918016690 |
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