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Title Observing the world through images : diagrams and figures in the early-modern art and sciences / edited by Nicholas Jardine and Isla Fay.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Science -- History.
Science.
History.
Medicine -- History.
Medicine.
Science -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
Medicine -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
Genre/Form Charts, diagrams, etc.
Electronic books.
History.
Graphs.
Graphs.
Added Author Jardine, Nicholas, editor.
Fay, Isla, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Observing the world through images. Leiden : Brill, 2014 9789004263840 (DLC) 2013954774 (OCoLC)857813075
ISBN 9789004263857 (e-book)
9004263853 (e-book)
9789004263840 (hardback)
9004263845 (hardback)