Observing the World Through Images

Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26384-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

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.
Contributors include: Isabelle Pantin, Jennifer Rampling, Samuel Gessner, Renee Raphael, Karin Ekholm, Hester Higton, and Katie Taylor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lüthy, Christoph

Jardine, Nicholas

Fay, Isla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Jardine is emeritus professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His recent publications include La guerre des astronomes, 2 vols, Les Belles Lettres, 2008.
Isla Fay is a research associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Diagrams, Figures and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450–1650' at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She has published on pre-modern health and disease, including an edition of early civic sanitary provisions.