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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
Published Leiden : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Notes Print version record
Subject Science -- History.
Medicine -- History.
Science -- Charts, diagrams, etc
Medicine -- Charts, diagrams, etc
History of Medicine
history of medicine.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Medicine
Science
Science.
Genre/Form Charts, diagrams, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Jardine, Nicholas, editor
Fay, Isla, editor
ISBN 9789004263857
9004263853