The power of images in early modern science
By: edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre, Jürgen Renn, and Urs Schoepflin.
Publisher: Birkhauser; Birkhäuser
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Description: The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the early modern period. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.