Transmitting knowledge
Subtitle: words, images, and instruments in early modern Europe
By: edited by Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean.
Contributors: Kusukawa, Sachiko.; Maclean, Ian, 1945-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780199288786
Subjects: Science -- Europe -- History; Natural history -- Europe -- History; Science -- Europe -- Philosophy; Natural history -- Europe -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visualization in renaissance optics : the function of geometrical diagrams and pictures in the transmission of practical knowledge / Sven Dupré; title: Medieval sundials and manuscript sources : the transmission of information about the navicula and the organum Ptolomei in fifteenth-century Europe / Catherine Eagleton; title: The uses of pictures in the formation of learned knowledge : the cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius / Sachiko Kusukawa; title: Where logical necessity becomes visual persuasion : Descartes's clear and distinct illustrations / Christoph Lüthy; title: Diagrams in the defence of Galen : medical uses of tables, squares, dichotomies, wheels, and latitudes, 1480-1574 / Ian Maclean; title: The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625) / Alexander Marr; title: Objects of knowledge : mathematics and models in sixteenth-century cosmology and astronomy / Adam Mosley; title: Kepler's epitome : new images for an innovative book / Isabelle Pantin; title: 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their functions, and their audiences in seventeenth-century mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert.