Article ID: CBB195279413

Images & Color: The Strasbourg Printer Johann Schott (1477–1548) and His Circle (2022)

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While most Renaissance scholars working on compendia of learning, geography, surgery, legal history, art history, the Reformation, and botany will be familiar with the name of Johann Schott, few have appreciated the range and impact of the Strasbourg printer’s publications. Here I discuss a handful among the over two hundred books and other materials he printed: Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophica; the edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia with Waldseemüller’s maps; Hans von Gersdorff, Feldtbuch der Wundarzney; and – the main focus this essay – Herbarum vivae eicones, with figures by Hans Weiditz and text by Otto Brunfels. Schott can be seen as an architect or active agent of his publications; his innovative use of images and color can be seen as having progressively developed from his early prints to his celebrated herbal.

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Authors & Contributors
Sarah Neville
Bernschneider-Reif, Sabine
Egmond, Marco Van
Friedrich, Christoph
Funk, Holger
Heinrichs, Erik Anton
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Cartographica Helvetica
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Technology and Culture
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Publishers
Olschki
Columbia University
Cambridge University Press
Govi-Verlag
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Printing
Herbals and bestiaries
Botany
Scientific illustration
Maps; atlases
Geography
People
Brunfels, Otto
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Berlinghieri, Francesco
Fuchs, Leonhart
Hartlieb, Johannes
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus
Time Periods
16th century
15th century
17th century
Renaissance
18th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Italy
South America
England
Ottoman Empire
Rome (Italy)
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