The Power of Images in Early Modern Science
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, th...
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Table of Contents:
- I. Mechanics Between Practical and Theoretical Knowledge and the Mediatory Function of Images
- The Challenging Images of Artillery: Practical Knowledge at the Roots of the Scientific Revolution
- Ships, Science and the Three Traditions of Early Modern Design
- Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines
- The Limits of Pictures: Cognitive Functions of Images in Practical Mechanics — 1400 to 1600
- Reframing the Language of Inventions: The First Theatre of Machines
- II. Theories of Matter Between Alchemy and Atomism and the Autonomy of Images
- Alchemical Iconography at the Dawn of the Modern Age: The Splendor solis of Salomon Trismosin
- The Invention of Atomist Iconography
- III. The Classification of Life and the Interaction Between Images and Texts
- Image and Text in Natural History, 1500–1700
- Notes on the Function of Early Zoological Imagery
- Elephant, Mammoth, Unicorn, or What?: Notes on the Interrelations of Pictures and Texts in Leibniz
- IV. Depicting the World at Large and the Hidden Potential of Images
- Planetary Diagrams — Descriptions, Models, Theories: From Carolingian Deployments to Copernican Debates
- Images, Models and Symbols in Copernican Propaganda
- Edmond Halley and Visual Representation in Natural Philosophy
- V. Systems of Knowledge and their Representation by Images
- Encyclopaedias and Architecture in the Sixteenth Century
- The Mathematical Sciences in Raphael’s School of Athens