Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 360 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Faksimiles
ISBN:
9783031113178
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Part I Transmission -- 1 The Art of Learning: Illustrated Lecture Notebooks at the Old University of Louvain -- 1.1 The Tradition of Illustrated Notebooks -- 1.2 Learning Mechanisms -- 1.3 Emblematic Language: Recuperation and Adaptation -- 1.4 Affixiones, Thesis Prints, and Emblem Books: The Jesuit Influence -- 1.5 Framing Device, Representation of Science, and Ars Memorativa -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- 2 The Illustrated Printed Page as a Tool for Thinking and for Transmitting Knowledge. The Case of the Theoricae Planetarum -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 From the Theorica Vetus to Peuerbach's Theoricae Novae -- 2.3 The Role of Illustration in the Rivalry Between the Old and New Theories -- 2.4 Theorica: The Meaning of a Term -- 2.5 The "Theoricae" as "Pictures" of Heavens: The Elusive Relationship between Geometrical Abstraction, Modelization, and Concrete Reality -- 2.6 The Images as Pedagogical Summaries and Glossaries of Technical Terms -- 2.7 The Theoricae as Instruments -- 2.8 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Microscopy and Natural Philosophy: Robert Hooke, His Micrographia, and the Early Royal Society -- 3.1 Hooke and the Royal Society -- 3.2 The Micrographia Project -- 3.3 Microscopy and Apologetics -- 3.4 Interpreting Microscopical Images -- 3.5 The Graphic Transposition of the "True Form" and Its Functions -- 3.6 Microscopy and Natural Philosophy -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Vision on Vision: Defining Similarities Among Early Modern Illustrations on Cosmology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Role of a Scientific Illustration -- 4.3 Three Historically Meaningful Forms of Similarity Among Early Modern Scientific Illustrations -- 4.4 Statistics and Tools -- 4.5 Clustering of Philological Groups -- 4.5.1 Methods to Cluster -- 4.5.2 Results.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031113161
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Scientific visual representations in history Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023 ISBN 9783031113161
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Wissenschaft
;
Visualisierung
;
Bildliche Darstellung
;
Illustration
;
Geschichte Anfänge-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Valleriani, Matteo
