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Transmitting Knowledge - Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Transmitting Knowledge - Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
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The period between the fifteenth and the middle of the seventeenth
centuries saw a great many changes and innovations in scientific
thinking. These were communicated to various publics in diverse
ways; not only through discursive prose and formal notations, but
also in the form of instruments and images accompanying texts. The
collected essays of this volume examine the modes of transmission
of this knowledge in a variety of contexts. The schematic
representation of instruments is examined in the case of the
'navicula' (a versatile version of a sundial) and the 'squadro' (a
surveying instrument); the new forms of illustration of plants and
the human body are investigated through the work of Fuchs and
Vesalius; theories of optics and of matter are discussed in
relation to the illustrations which accompany the texts of Ausonio
and Descartes. The different diagrammatic strategies adopted to
explain the complex medical theory of the latitude of health are
charted through the work of medieval and sixteenth-century
physicians; Kepler's use of illustration in his handbook of
cosmology is placed in the context of book production and
Copernican propaganda. The conception of astronomical instruments
as either calculating devices or as cosmological models is examined
in the case of Tycho Brahe and others. A study is devoted to the
multiple functions of frontispieces and to the various readerships
for which they were conceived. The papers in the volume are all
based on new research, and they constitute together a coherent and
convergent set of case studies which demonstrate the vitality and
inventiveness of early modern natural philosophers, and their
awareness of the media available to them for transmitting
knowledge.
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