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13 produkter
Italian Genius on Display
The First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy
Inbunden, 2022
2311 kr
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Held in Florence in 1929, the First National Exhibition of History of Science was a pivotal event in the shaping of Italian cultural panorama. With more than 8000 items on display coming from public and private lenders, it showed the general public how rich the Italian scientific heritage was and …
Selene's Two Faces
From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging
Inbunden, 2018
2104 kr
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If any scientific object has over the course of human history aroused the fascination of both scientists and artists worldwide, it is beyond doubt the moon. The moon is also by far the most interesting celestial body when it comes to reflecting on the dualistic nature of photography as applied to …
Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire
A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 2017
1989 kr
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Janello Torriani, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Juanelo Turriano (Cremona, Italy ca. 1500 – Toledo, Spain 1585), is the greatest among Renaissance inventors and constructors of machines. Contemporary literates and mathematicians celebrated Janello Torriani and his creations in their …
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy
Inbunden, 2016
2351 kr
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Barbara Tramelli’s Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy investigates the context in which the writings of the painter Giovanni Lomazzo were produced, the types of theoretical and practical knowledge which they conveyed to artists and how painters …
Traces of Ink
Experiences of Philology and Replication
Inbunden, 2021
1841 kr
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Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes …
Brain and Race
A History of Cerebral Anthropology
Inbunden, 2020
2839 kr
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Since the second half of the eighteenth century, generations of scientists persisted in studying the relationships between the volume, weight or shape of the human brain and the degree of ‘intelligence’. In Pogliano’s book, the thread of time drives the narrative up to the mid-twentieth century. It …
Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking
Constructions of a Dutch Polymath
Av C.A. Davids
Inbunden, 2020
2539 kr
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This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of ‘man of knowledge’. Traditionally, Stevin is best known for his contributions to the ‘Archimedean turn’. This innovative volume moves beyond this conventional image by bringing many other aspects of his work into …
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775–900
New Approaches to Recipe Literature
Inbunden, 2024
2498 kr
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Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also …
Manipulating the Sun
Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era
Inbunden, 2023
2466 kr
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This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as …
Instruments of Knowledge
Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums
Inbunden, 2023
2173 kr
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In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible …
Gendered Touch
Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2022
2848 kr
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This book aims at exploring how practical expertise, textual learning, and the gendered bodies intersected with the production of knowledge in early modern Europe. Gendered touch looks at both how representations of gendered bodies contributed to the production of knowledge, and at how practice …
L’anatomia tra lettere e arti: rappresentazioni e immaginari dal XVI al XXI secolo
Inbunden, 2025
1480 kr
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The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.By examining the interplay between the history of medicine, literature, the visual arts, and architecture, this volume investigates the presence of anatomy within other fields of …
Invention of Scientific Conservation
Expert Cultures of Conservation after the Second World War
Inbunden, 2025
2502 kr
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The book addresses the question of how experts from a variety of educational backgrounds and with different professional identities created scientific conservation. How did they make science the type of knowledge carrying most authority in questions of conservation? From the ruins of the Second …
