Article ID: CBB030884276

Giving Light to Narrative (2015)

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This paper examines the visual and verbal cross-pollination between the Philosophical Transactions and the Journal des Sçavans with a specific focus on the role of the visual as an open form of communication, which overcame the linguistic barriers implied by journals published in vernacular languages, rather than Latin. Studying the illustrated articles published in the two journals in 1666 highlights the ways in which the authors viewed the images as providing clarity to their prose and how the images provided access to useful information that was otherwise invisible.

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Authors & Contributors
Fyfe, Aileen
Cynthia Wall
Lawrence P. Reynolds
Pegler, D.
Vander Meulen
Max Kemeny
Concepts
Illustrations
Scientific illustration
Societies; institutions; academies
Science and art
Periodicals; serials
Visual representation; visual communication
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
16th century
15th century
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
England
France
Soviet Union
Rome (Italy)
India
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
Institut de France, Paris
Akademiia Nauk SSSR
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Accademia del Cimento, Florence
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