Reassessing epistemic images in the early modern world / edited by Ruth Sargent Noyes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Noyes, Ruth S., editor.

Series:

Scientiae studies.

Scientiae studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prints--16th century.

Prints.

Prints--17th century.

Mental representation--History--16th century.

Mental representation.

Mental representation--History--17th century.

Knowledge, Sociology of--History--16th century.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Knowledge, Sociology of--History--17th century.

Social epistemology--History--16th century.

Social epistemology.

Social epistemology--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed images, objects, and materials produced c. 1500-1700, as well as well as works in the ambit of early modern print culture, to reframe a comparative history of the rise of the 'epistemic imprint' as a new visual genre at the onset of the scientific revolution. The book includes contributions from the perspective of international scholars and museum professionals drawing on methodologies from a range of fields.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

1. Prologue

2. Introduction

Part 1 Approaches to Print Matrices

3. Sequencing Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica

4. Meticulous Matrices : Building a Chronology of Albrecht Dürer’s Meisterstiche Impressions through the Analysis and Documentation of Microscopic Scratches in His Engraved Plates

5. Digital Resuscitation of the Officina Plantiniana’s Woodblock Collection : Goals, Approaches, and Results

Part 2 Imprints as Instruments

6. Academic Print Practices in the Southern Netherlands : Allegory and Emblematics as Epistemic Tools

7. Visual Worlds on Early Modern Scientific Instruments: Types and Messages

8. Visual Tools and Searchable Science in Early Modern Books

Part 3 Imprint, Knowledge, and Affect

9. The Hydraulics of the Soul: Jacobus Meilingius’s Allegorical Schemata

10. Images of the Eye from Vesalius to Fabricius ab Aquapendente

11. Illustrating the Vernacular Body : Juan Valverde de Amusco and the Art of Embodied Anatomy

12. Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 5, 2023).

ISBN:

9789048553532

9048553539

OCLC:

1357556572