Title: The power of images in early modern science
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.
Subjects: Science, Communication in science, Visual communication, History, Physics, History of science, Science/Mathematics, Science / Physics, General, Science, history