Skepticism's Pictures : : Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy / / Melissa Lo.
In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked by observation, experiment, confessional strife, and political pressure, natural philosophers came to rely on the printed image to fortify their epistemologies-and none more so than René Descartes. In Ske...
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Lo, Melissa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Skepticism's Pictures : Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy / Melissa Lo. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (230 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked by observation, experiment, confessional strife, and political pressure, natural philosophers came to rely on the printed image to fortify their epistemologies-and none more so than René Descartes. In Skepticism's Pictures, historian of science Melissa Lo chronicles the visual idioms that made, sustained, revised, and resisted Descartes's new philosophy.Drawing on moon maps, political cartoons, student notebooks, treatises on practical mathematics, and other sources, Lo argues that Descartes transformed natural philosophy with the introduction of a new graphic language that inspired a wide range of pictorial responses shaped by religious affiliation, political commitment, and cultural convention. She begins by historicizing the graphic vocabularies of Descartes's Essais and Principia philosophiae and goes on to analyze the religious and civic volatility of Descartes's thought, which compelled defenders (such as Jacques Rohault and Wolferd Senguerd) to reconfigure his pictures according to their local visual cultures-and stimulated enemies (such as Gabriel Daniel) to unravel Descartes's visual logic with devastating irony. In the epilogue, Lo explains why nineteenth-century French philosophers divorced Descartes's thought from his pictures, creating a modern image of reason and a version of philosophy absent visuality.Engaging and accessible, Skepticism's Pictures presents an exciting new approach to Descartes and the visual reception of seventeenth-century physics. It will appeal to historians of early modern European science, philosophy, art, and culture and to art historians interested in histories that give images their argumentative power. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023) HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. bisacsh Descartes. Essais. Gabriel Daniel. Jacques Rohault. Principia philosophiae. Wolferd Senguerd. book illustration. early modern art and science. philosophy. prints. seventeenth-century art. visual culture. woodcuts. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110797756 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271096384 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271096384/original |
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