LEADER 00000cam a2200685Ii 4500 001 ocn869384034 003 OCoLC 005 20170127064048.2 006 m o d 007 cr mn||||||||| 008 140129s2014 ne a ob 001 0 eng d 019 869343286 020 9789004263857|q(e-book) 020 9004263853|q(e-book) 020 |z9789004263840|q(hardback) 020 |z9004263845|q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)869384034|z(OCoLC)869343286 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dOCLCQ|dOSU|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dOCLCF 049 RIDW 050 4 BH151 050 4 Q125|b.O37 2014eb 072 7 PHI|x013000|2bisacsh 082 04 111.85|222 090 BH151 090 Q125|b.O37 2014eb 245 00 Observing the world through images :|bdiagrams and figures in the early-modern art and sciences /|cedited by Nicholas Jardine and Isla Fay. 264 1 Leiden :|bBrill,|c2014. 300 1 online resource (233 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 8 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. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Science|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects /sh85118570 650 0 Medicine|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85083080 650 0 Science|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85118553|vCharts, diagrams, etc.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh99001425 650 0 Medicine|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85083064|vCharts, diagrams, etc.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh99001425 650 7 Science.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108176 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Medicine.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1014893 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Charts, diagrams, etc.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast /1423732 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 655 7 Graphs.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/ gf2014026061 655 7 Graphs.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919900 700 1 Jardine, Nicholas,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n83187242|eeditor. 700 1 Fay, Isla,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ no2014018437|eeditor. 776 08 |iPrint version:|tObserving the world through images. |dLeiden : Brill, 2014|z9789004263840|w(DLC) 2013954774 |w(OCoLC)857813075 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=676943|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20170505|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic new|lridw 994 92|bRID