IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB001550648

O rinoceronte de Dürer e suas lićóes para a historiografia da ciência (2014)

Martins, Roberto de Andrade (Author)

Filosofia e História da Biologia
Volume: 9, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 199-238
Publication date: 2014
Language: Portuguese

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Albrecht Dürer's woodblock of a rhinoceros, produced in 1515, was a landmark both in art and in zoology. That representation, containing several mistakes, became the standard image of the rhinoceros for two centuries, strongly influencing naturalists and the whole culture of the period. Europeans only became aware of the real appearance of a rhinoceros during the 18th century. This paper analyses the history of the rhinoceros represented by Dürer, comparing it with other works of the same time, and the likely sources of his blunders. The article employs this case study to point out historiographical errors on this subject and to contemplate several methodological issues of the history of science.

...More

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB001550648

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Chapter Hentschel, Klaus; (2000)
Drawing, engraving, photographing, plotting, printing: Historical studies of visual representations, particularly in astronomy

Book Dackerman, Susan; Daston, Lorraine; Park, Katharine; Schmidt, Suzanne Karr; Swan, Claudia; (2011)
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Article E. Charles Nelson; (2023)
New identifications of natural history images on the “Bodleian Plate”, an early eighteenth-century engraved copperplate

Article Ségal, Alain; (2006)
Le premier essai imprimé d'illustration en couleurs ou modeste complément à l'essai de 1911 du professeur René Ledoux-Lebard

Article Tschudin, Peter F.; (2007)
Typometrie: Eine erfolgreiche Technik zur Herstellung aktueller Karten

Chapter Roberts, Sean; (2013)
Tricks of the Trade: The Technical Secrets of Early Engraving

Article Lü, Daoen; (2013)
A New Study on the Invention of Photo-Zincography and Photo-Lithography and Their First Introduction to China

Book Roos, Anna Marie; (2011)
Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639--1712), the First Arachnologist

Article Allmon, Warren D.; (2007)
The Evolution of Accuracy in Natural History Illustration: Reversal of Printed Illustrations of Snails and Crabs in Pre-Linnaean Works Suggests Indifference to Morphological Detail

Article Vanpaemel, Geert; (2011)
The Louvain Printers and the Establishment of the Cartesian Curriculum

Article Elizabeth Yale; (2016)
The Book and the Archive in the History of Science

Article Simone Turchetti; (2022)
A Diplomacy Turn? Writing the History of Science in the Context of International Relations

Article Antonella Romano; (2016)
The History Manifesto, History of Science, and Big Narratives: Some Pending Questions

Article Pietro Daniel Omodeo; (2022)
History of Science and History of the Earth in the Anthropocene

Review Karine Chemla; (2016)
Review of "The History Manifesto"

Article Simões, Ana; Carneiro, Ana; Diogo, Maria Paula; (2008)
Perspectives on Contemporary History of Science in Portugal

Review Daniel J. Kevles; (2016)
Review of "The History Manifesto"

Article Patiniotis, Manolis; (2008)
Origins of the Historiography of Modern Greek Science

Article Mordechai Feingold; (2019)
Response to H. Floris Cohen's Essay Review on Newtonian Scholarship