The power of images in early modern science /
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| Imprint: | Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, c2003. |
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| Description: | ix, 308 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5150644 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Wolfgang Lefevre, Jurgen Renn and Urs Schoepflin
- The challenging images of artillery : practical knowledge at the roots of the scientific revolution / Jochen Buttner, Peter Damerow, Jurgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel
- Ships, science and the three traditions of early modern design / David McGee
- Art and artifice in the depiction of Renaissance machines / Paolo Galluzzi
- The limits of pictures : cognitive functions of images in practical mechanics - 1400 to 1600 / Wolfgang Lefevre
- Reframing the language of inventions : the first theatre of machines / Luisa M. Dolza
- Alchemical iconography at the dawn of the modern age : the splendor solis of Salomon Trismosin / Anne-Francoise Cannella
- The invention of atomist iconography / Christoph Luthy
- Image and text in natural history, 1500-1700 / Brian W. Ogilvie
- Notes on the function of early zoological imagery / Allan Ellenius
- Elephant, mammoth, unicorn, or what? : notes on the interrelations of pictures and texts in Leibniz / Alexandre Metraux
- Planetary diagrams - descriptions, models, theories : from carolingian deployments to Copernican debates / Bruce Eastwood and Gerd Grasshoff
- Images, models and symbols in Copernican propaganda / Giancarlo Nonnoi
- Edmond Halley and visual representation in natural philosophy / Alan Cook
- Encyclopaedias and architecture in the sixteenth century / Annarita Angelini
- The mathematical sciences in Raphael's school of Athens / Matthias Winner.
