Transmitting Knowledge Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe [Hardcover]

Based on new research, a distinguished international team studies the forms in which scientific knowledge was transmitted in the late medieval and early modern period, the ways they interacted, and the people to whom the knowledge was directed. Among the famous authors whose work is examined here are Fuchs, Vesalius, Tycho Brahe, and Descartes.

Introduction,Richard Scholar
1. Visualization in Renaissance Optics: The Function of Geometrical Diagrams and Pictures in the Transmission of Practical Knowledge,Sven Dupr?
2. Medieval Sundials and Manuscript Sources: The Transmission of Information about the Navicula and theorganum ptolomeiin Fifteenth-Century Europe,Catherine Eagleton
3. The Uses of Pictures in the Formation of Learned Knowledge: The Cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius,Sachiko Kusukawa
4. Where Logical Necessity Becomes Visual Persuasion: Descartes's Clear and Distinct Illustrations,Christopher L?thy
5. Diagrams in the Defence of Galen: Medical Uses of Tables, Squares, Dichotomies, Wheels, and Latitudes, 1480-1574,Ian Maclean
6. The Production and Distribution of Mutio Oddi'sDello squadro(1625),Alexander Marr
7. Objects of Knowledge: Mathematics and Models in Sixteenth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy,Adam Mosley
8. Kepler'sEpitome: New Images for an Innovative Book,Isabelle Pantin
9. '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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Ian Macleanis a graduate of Oxford, where he also did his doctorate; he was for twenty-four years a Fellow and Praelector in French at Queen's College Oxford, and Lecturer then Reader in Modern Languages in the University of Oxford. He became a titular professor in Renaissance Studies in the University, before moving l;