Transmitting knowledge : words, images, and instruments in early modern Europe

Abstract

Introduction 1. Visualization in Renaissance Optics: The Function of Geometrical Diagrams and Pictures in the Transmission of Practical Knowledge 2. Medieval Sundials and Manuscript Sources: The Transmission of Information about the Navicula and the organum ptolomei in Fifteenth-Century Europe 3. The Uses of Pictures in the Formation of Learned Knowledge: The Cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius 4. Where Logical Necessity Becomes Visual Persuasion: Descartes's Clear and Distinct Illustrations 5. Diagrams in the Defence of Galen: Medical Uses of Tables, Squares, Dichotomies, Wheels, and Latitudes, 1480-1574 6. The Production and Distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625) 7. Objects of Knowledge: Mathematics and Models in Sixteenth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy 8. Kepler's Epitome: New Images for an Innovative Book 9. 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their Functions, and their Audiences in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Sciences Index

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