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Item Number: 128238
Title: Mapping Spaces : Networks of Knowledge in the Landscape Painting of the 17th Century
Author: Gehring, Ulrike ; Peter Weibel (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783777422305
Description: München: Hirmer, 2014. 28cm., hardcover, 500pp., 350 color illus.

Contents: U. Gehring, Painted Topographies - A Transdisciplinary ; Approach to Science and Technology in 17th-Century Landscape Painting l R. Vermij, The Copernican Revolution and the Geometrization of Physical Space ; J. Rohls, Infinite Space - Calvinist Controversies and Theological Accomodations of a New Heaven ; J. Picard, A Multitude of Worlds - Physica Mosaica and David Nieto's Quest for a Jewish Natural Philosophy ; I. Söderlund, Heavens and Earth - Early-Modern Astronomical Frontispieces ; A. Christoph, On Earth and Heaven - Globes as Models of Cosmological Extensions ; P. Ziegler, A New Genre of Cartographic Books - The Atlas Production in the Low Countries ; W. Velminski, The Tentative View of Cartography ; J. van Putten, The City Book and the Emergence of the Artist-chorographer ; F. Lammertse, "Embedded Journalist" of Naval Battles - Willem van de Velde I ; J. Gascke, Shaping the Seascape - Dutch Artists Imaging the Maritime World ; T. Tilk, Global Positioning and the Measurement of Time ; K. Davids, Colonial, Religious and Commercial Machines - Globalization as an Impulse for Knowledge ; H. Cook, Commerce, Trade and the Emergence of the New Sciences ; P. Biesboer, Beyond Far Horizons ; M. Pfaffenbichler, Documenting Military Events in 17th-century Battle Scenes ; W. Kalina, Painting for the General - Pieter Snayers' Piccolmini Cycle ; L. Kelchtermans, Honing in on Pieter Snayers' Working Method - Relief of Leuven, 1635 ; B. Marten, 16th and 17th-century Fortifications in the Iberian Peninsula and the Netherlands ; A. Schlechter, Engraved Title Pages of Fortifical Manuals ; J. Goudeau, The Horizon Besieged - Ways of Capturing Space in Early Modern Fortification Theory ; W. Dolz, Notch and Bead - The Development of Artillery Instruments for Measuring and Sighting ; M. Valleriani, Agostino Ramelli as Recipient of a New Science of Ballistics ; W. Otterspeer, The Study of Practical Mathematics at Leiden University ; T. Huisman, Mastering the World - Three Collections of Curiosities in the Young Dutch Republic ; F. Jan Dijksterhuis, Geometries of Space - Dutch Mathematics and the Visualization of Distance ; H.J. Vollrath, The Didactic Function of Illustrations in Historical Surveying Books ; H.U. Seifert, From Günter's Chain to Systematic Triangulation - Geodetically Generated Landscapes in Early Modern Prints ; T. Cocquyt, The Holland Circle - Instrumental in Establishing the Dutch Surveyor and Instrument Maker's Identity ; K. Gaulke, Benjamin Bramer's "Instrument-Kästlein" - Mathematical Equipment for a Young Prince ; W. Pircher, The Landscape of the Engineer - An Historical Account of Land Reclamation ; D. Aten, Usefulness, Durability and Beauty - Reclaiming and Designing the Beemster Polder, 1607-1612 ; F. Ossing, Clouds in 17th-century Dutch Landscape Painting - The Urge Toward the Real ; M. North, The Rise of a Genre - Landscapes on the Dutch Art Market ; P. Weibel, Media, Mappint and Painting ; A. Beitin, Imagination, Elevation - Battlefield Automation - From the Elevated View to Battle Drones ; L. Semmerling, Living Perspective - A Phenomenological Investigation of Landscape in Painting and Cartography.

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