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Observing the World Through Images: Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences

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Through well-illustrated essays, Observing the World through Images explores the making and uses of printed diagrams and pictures in the practice and communication of early-modern sciences and medicine.

Author(s): Nicholas Jardine, Isla Fay
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 233
City: Leiden

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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*
Index of Names