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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Early Modern Color Worlds; Tawrin Baker, Sven Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa, Karin Leonhard; Mining for Color: New Blues, Yellows, and Translucent Paint; Barbara H. Berrie; Writing on Pigments in Natural History and Art Technology in Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland; Doris Oltrogge; Ulisse Aldrovandi's Color Sensibility: Natural History, Language and the Lay Color Practices of Renaissance Virtuosi; Valentina Pugliano; Red, White and Black: Colors of Beauty, Tints of Health and Cosmetic Materials in Early Modern English Art Writing |
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Romana SammernPainted Gems. The Color Worlds of Portrait Miniature Painting in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Britain; Karin Leonhard; Fireworks and Color in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Simon Werrett; "Siben Farben unnd Künsten frey": The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner's Universe Tabletop of 1533; Andrew Morrall; Understandings of Colors: Varieties of Theories in the Color Worlds of the Early Seventeenth Century; Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis; Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle's Works; Tawrin Baker; The Saline Chymistry of Color in Seventeenth-Century English Natural History |
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Many challenges hinder the historical study of early modern color. These essays offer a way forward through the category of 'color worlds'--constituted by practices, concepts and objects--and examine the emergence of the languages and objects used to communicate between them.-- Provided by Publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Originally published as Volume XX, Nos. 4-6 (2015) of Brill's journal Early science and medicine |
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Print version record |
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Color -- History
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Symbolism of colors.
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Optics.
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Color in art.
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Color vision.
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Color Perception
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optics.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Optics & Light.
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Color
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Color in art
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Color vision
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Optics
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Symbolism of colors
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Baker, Tawrin, editor
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Dupré, Sven, 1975- editor
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Kusukawa, Sachiko, editor
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Leonhard, Karin, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004316607 |
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9004316604 |
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