Format:
XV, 274 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
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22 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
019928878X
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9780199288786
Series Statement:
Oxford-Warburg studies
Note:
Vorw.: This publication arises from the workshop of Team Four held on 25-8 March 2004 at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
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Visualization in renaissance optics : the function of geometrical diagrams and pictures in the transmission of practical knowledge / Sven Dupré -- Medieval sundials and manuscript sources : the transmission of information about the navicula and the Organum Ptolomei in fifteenth-century Europe / Catherine Eagleton -- The uses of pictures in the formation of learned knowledge : the cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Where logical necessity becomes visual persuasion : Descartes's clear and distinct illustrations / Christoph Lüthy -- Diagrams in the defence of Galen : medical uses of tables, squares, dichotomies, wheels, and latitudes, 1480-1574 / Ian Maclean -- The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625) / Alexander Marr -- Objects of knowledge : mathematics and models in sixteenth-century cosmology and astronomy / Adam Mosley -- Kepler's epitome : new images for an innovative book / Isabelle Pantin -- 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their functions, and their audiences in seventeenth-century mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert.
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Visualization in renaissance optics : the function of geometrical diagrams and pictures in the transmission of practical knowledge / Sven Dupré -- Medieval sundials and manuscript sources : the transmission of information about the navicula and the organum Ptolomei in fifteenth-century Europe / Catherine Eagleton -- The uses of pictures in the formation of learned knowledge : the cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Where logical necessity becomes visual persuasion : Descartes's clear and distinct illustrations / Christoph Lüthy -- Diagrams in the defence of Galen : medical uses of tables, squares, dichotomies, wheels, and latitudes, 1480-1574 / Ian Maclean -- The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625) / Alexander Marr -- Objects of knowledge : mathematics and models in sixteenth-century cosmology and astronomy / Adam Mosley -- Kepler's epitome : new images for an innovative book / Isabelle Pantin -- 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their functions, and their audiences in seventeenth-century mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Natural Sciences
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Ethnology
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General works
Keywords:
Wissensliteratur
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Geschichte 1200-1700
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Wissensvermittlung
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Naturwissenschaften
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Geschichte 1400-1650
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=15495
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027342.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/2005027342-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2005027342-b.html
Author information:
Dupré, Sven 1975-
Author information:
Maclean, Ian 1945-
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