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1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Science -- History.
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Science. |
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History. |
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine. |
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Science -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
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Medicine -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
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Genre/Form |
Charts, diagrams, etc.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Graphs.
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Graphs.
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Added Author |
Jardine, Nicholas, editor.
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Fay, Isla, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Observing the world through images. Leiden : Brill, 2014 9789004263840 (DLC) 2013954774 (OCoLC)857813075 |
ISBN |
9789004263857 (e-book) |
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9004263853 (e-book) |
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9789004263840 (hardback) |
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9004263845 (hardback) |
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