Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World

Edited by: Ruth Noyes

Volume 3 in the series Scientiae Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553532

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Noyes Ruth :

Ruth Sargent Noyes is Marie Sklodowska-Curie EU Senior Research Fellow in Art History at the National Museum of Denmark. Author of a number of books and articles, she is a 2014 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and recipient of a number of research grants and awards.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
1. Prologue For a Metaphorology of Engraving: From Epistemic Images to an Imaged Epistemology Ralph Dekoninck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Introduction Pittura filosofica: Etching Galileo’s Sunspots and the Discursive Field of Early Modern Epistemic Images Ruth Sargent Noyes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Part 1 Approaches to Print Matrices
3. Sequencing Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos and Stephen N. Joffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Meticulous Matrices : Building a Chronology of Albrecht Dürer’s Meisterstiche Impressions through the Analysis and Documentation of Microscopic Scratches in His Engraved Plates Angela Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. Digital Resuscitation of the Officina Plantiniana’s Woodblock Collection : Goals, Approaches, and Results Jolien Van den Bossche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part 2 Imprints as Instruments
6. Academic Print Practices in the Southern Netherlands : Allegory and Emblematics as Epistemic Tools Gwendoline de Mûelenaere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
7. Visual Worlds on Early Modern Scientific Instruments: Types and Messages Julia Ellinghaus and Volker R. Remmert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8. Visual Tools and Searchable Science in Early Modern Books Britta-Juliane Kruse and Stephanie Leitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Part 3 Imprint, Knowledge, and Affect
9. The Hydraulics of the Soul: Jacobus Meilingius’s Allegorical Schemata Anneke de Bont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
10. Images of the Eye from Vesalius to Fabricius ab Aquapendente The Rise of Metrical Representation in Anatomical Diagrams and the Cross-Fertilization of Visual Traditions Tawrin Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
11. Illustrating the Vernacular Body : Juan Valverde de Amusco and the Art of Embodied Anatomy Emily Monty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
12. Epilogue Forgetting How to See Stephanie Porras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 324
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 91
Keywords: early modern studies; visual studies; material culture; print culture

eBook

Published: December 22, 2022
ISBN: 9789048553532