Article ID: CBB841783637

Printing and Instrument Making in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1520–1600 (2016)

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This essay addresses printing and instrument making as crucial features in the accumulation and dissemination of cosmographical knowledge; as a corollary, it also frames the avalanche of data from the New World as a problem of ‘information management’. In this respect, while standard treatments of the topic emphasize the epistemological gathering directed by royal institutions, I maintain that armchair erudition and discovery were still coessential, if not overlapping. My discussion pursues a specific case study – the use of Pedro de Medina’s nautical tract in Seville, Venice and Antwerp – aiming to rewrite some aspects of network theory in terms of translation. Simultaneously, it tracks epistemological changes taking place within the cognitive jurisdictions of the printing house, and examines descriptions of instruments, woodcuts, and diagrams, to visualize how historical actors used to communicate with patrons, mathematicians, and craftsmen.

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Authors & Contributors
Chen, Jessie Wei-Hsuan
Marco Spallanzani
Baadj, Nadia
Ribeiro, Luís Campos
Niazi, Kaveh
Ross, Elizabeth
Concepts
Patronage
Crafts and craftspeople
Printing
Cosmography
Mathematicians
Navigation
Time Periods
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
16th century
15th century
14th century
Places
Venice (Italy)
Italy
Antwerp
Jerusalem
Lisbon (Portugal)
England
Institutions
Société des arts industriels, Paris
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
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