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Item Number: 127217
Title: Observing the World through Images : Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences
Author: Jardine, Nicholas (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789004263840
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 233pp. illus. Contents: 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.
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