Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World / / ed. by Ruth Noyes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Tawrin,; Bont, Anneke de,; Bossche, Jolien Van den,; Campbell, Angela,; Dekoninck, Ralph,; Ellinghaus, Julia,; Joffe, Stephen N.,; Kruse, Britta-Juliane,; Leitch, Stephanie,; Margócsy, Dániel,; Monty, Emily,; Mûelenaere, Gwendoline de,; Noyes, Ruth Sargent,; Porras, Stephanie,; Remmert, Volker R.,; Somos, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Noyes, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Scientiae Studies ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

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...

Table of 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