The power of images in early modern science

The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the early modern period. 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.

שנה

2003

שפה

English

הוצאה

Birkhäuser Basel

מהדורות

4

עמודים

308

ISBN

9783764324346

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