The Power of Images in Early Modern Sciences

, by Lefevre, Wolfgang; Renn, Jurgen; Schoepflin, Urs

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ISBN: 9783764324346 | 3764324341
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Copyright: 12/1/2003

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The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the early modern period. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.

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Introduction
The challenging images of artillery : practical knowledge at the roots of the scientific revolution	p. 3
Ships, science and the three traditions of early modern design	p. 28
Art and artifice in the depiction of Renaissance machines	p. 47
The limits of pictures : cognitive functions of images in practical mechanics - 1400 to 1600	p. 69
Reframing the language of inventions : the first theatre of machines	p. 89
Alchemical iconography at the dawn of the modern age : the splendor solis of Salomon Trismosin	p. 107
The invention of atomist iconography	p. 117
Image and text in natural history, 1500-1700	p. 141
Notes on the function of early zoological imagery	p. 167
Elephant, mammoth, unicorn, or what? : notes on the interrelations of pictures and texts in Leibniz	p. 181
Planetary diagrams - descriptions, models, theories : from carolingian deployments to Copernican debates	p. 197
Images, models and symbols in Copernican propaganda	p. 227
Edmond Halley and visual representation in natural philosophy	p. 251
Encyclopaedias and architecture in the sixteenth century	p. 265
The mathematical sciences in Raphael's school of Athens	p. 289
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