The power of images in early modern science
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"The origin of this volume is a workshop held in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of workshops organized in the framework of the Network on Science and the Visual Images 1500 - 1800 funded by the European Science Foundation and initiated by William Shea."
308 pages
~5h 8min to read
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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.
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