The Power of Images in Early Modern Science

The Power of Images in Early Modern Science
Author: Wolfgang Lefèvre
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3034880995


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The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.