Article ID: CBB000017938

The iconography of the laboratory (1975)

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Description The author applies the critical method of the art historian and suggests that the historian of science should reconsider the meaning of pictures of “alchemists” by certain 17th-century artists, including David Teniers the Younger (1610-90), Matthieu von Helmont (1623-after 1679), and David Ryckaert (1612-61). After an analysis of 10 paintings (reproduced in the article), he cautions against accepting them as valid pictorial accounts of alchemical ambience and apparatus. (G.B. KAUFFMAN)


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Authors & Contributors
Favino, Federica
Feingold, Mordechai
Hiraoka, Ryuji
Homann, Frederick A.
Leibowitz, Flora L.
McClaughlin, Trevor
Journals
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
American Historical Review
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Nature and System
Publishers
de Gruyter
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
Oxford University Press
Saint Josephs University Press
Truman State University Press
Waanders
Concepts
Medicine
Philosophy
Science
Mathematics
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Natural philosophy
People
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
Avicenna
Bruno, Giordano
Campanella, Tommaso
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Della Porta, Giovan Battista
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
Places
Italy
British Isles
Caribbean
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
New Jersey (U.S.)
China
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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