Ebook: The Power of Images in Early Modern Science
- Tags: History of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work must be assumed if its analysis is only based shops organized in the framework of the on text. In fact, the analysis of the function of Network on Science and the Visual Images images in the early modern period shows that 1500 - 1800 funded by the European Science they mediated not only between science and Foundation and initiated by William Shea. its cultural context, but also between practi Meanwhile a selection of contributions was cal knowledge and its theoretical reflection thoroughly revised and prepared for publica in scientific theories. tion together with additionally invited papers The analysis of images thus constitutes an for this book. The result is a volume which important branch of the history of science we hope corresponds to the original inten that on the one hand is conceived of as part tion of the Network to contribute to a histori of a more general history of culture and on cal reconstruction of the role of images in the the other hand as a historical epistemology of history of science, still neglected because of knowledge. This book is not a systematic and the traditional focus of the history of science comprehensive account of scientific images on texts corresponding to a concentration on and the early modern period.
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.
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Challenging Images of Artillery....Pages 3-27
Ships, Science and the Three Traditions of Early Modern Design....Pages 28-46
Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines....Pages 47-68
The Limits of Pictures....Pages 69-88
Reframing the Language of Inventions: The First Theatre of Machines....Pages 89-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Alchemical Iconography at the Dawn of the Modern Age....Pages 107-116
The Invention of Atomist Iconography....Pages 117-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Image and Text in Natural History, 1500–1700....Pages 141-166
Notes on the Function of Early Zoological Imagery....Pages 167-180
Elephant, Mammoth, Unicorn, or What?....Pages 181-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Planetary Diagrams — Descriptions, Models, Theories....Pages 197-226
Images, Models and Symbols in Copernican Propaganda....Pages 227-250
Edmond Halley and Visual Representation in Natural Philosophy....Pages 251-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Encyclopaedias and Architecture in the Sixteenth Century....Pages 265-288
The Mathematical Sciences in Raphael’s School of Athens....Pages 289-308
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Challenging Images of Artillery....Pages 3-27
Ships, Science and the Three Traditions of Early Modern Design....Pages 28-46
Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines....Pages 47-68
The Limits of Pictures....Pages 69-88
Reframing the Language of Inventions: The First Theatre of Machines....Pages 89-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Alchemical Iconography at the Dawn of the Modern Age....Pages 107-116
The Invention of Atomist Iconography....Pages 117-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Image and Text in Natural History, 1500–1700....Pages 141-166
Notes on the Function of Early Zoological Imagery....Pages 167-180
Elephant, Mammoth, Unicorn, or What?....Pages 181-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Planetary Diagrams — Descriptions, Models, Theories....Pages 197-226
Images, Models and Symbols in Copernican Propaganda....Pages 227-250
Edmond Halley and Visual Representation in Natural Philosophy....Pages 251-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Encyclopaedias and Architecture in the Sixteenth Century....Pages 265-288
The Mathematical Sciences in Raphael’s School of Athens....Pages 289-308
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