Book ID: CBB000110579

Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment (2000)

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Shea, William R. (Editor)


Science History Publications


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: viii + 232 pp., illus., figs., tables, index
Language: English

Description Contents: John Heilbron, Domesticating Science in the Eighteenth Century; Werner Busch, Joseph Wright of Derby---Art, Science and the Validity of Artistic Language; William Shea, The Rhetoric of Experiments and Scientific Illustrations in the Enlightenment; Marco Beretta, Chemical Imagery and the Enlightenment of Matter; Fernand Hallyn, Some Reflections on Geometrical Diagrams and Mathematical Physics; Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Naturalistic Illustrations and Collections in Tuscany in the Eighteenth Century; Jim Bennett, Instruments and Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century Astronomy; Carmélia Opsomer, Illustrated Courses of Natural Philosophy in the Southern Low Countries, 1670-1797; Julia Lindkvist, Women Illustrators of Natural History in the Enlightenment; Carla Oldenburger, Catalogues of Dutch Botanical Gardens in the Enlightenment.


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Review Benjamin B. Olshin (2011) Review of "Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 118-120). unapi

Review Sicard, Monique (2004) Review of "Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (p. 546). unapi

Review Maerker, Anna (2003) Review of "Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 151). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Generali, Dario
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Casini, Paolo
García Alonso, Juan Luis
Enza Del Tedesco
Vega, Jesusa
Journals
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Publishers
Mimesis
Pavia University Press
Edizioni Cadmo
Yale Center for British Art
Università degli Studi
Peter Lang
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Physics
Philosophy
Mathematics
Astronomy
Natural history
People
Wright, Joseph
Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash
Newton, Isaac
Mersenne, Marin
Kepler, Johannes
Kant, Immanuel
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Renaissance
19th century
16th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Mediterranean region
Netherlands
Great Britain
Hellenistic world
Institutions
School of Milan
Dutch East India Company
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