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Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England
Visual Communication and the Royal Society
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and connoisseurship; the role of an epistolary network in the production of knowledge; balancing …
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge
An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline. Its scope expands beyond the natural historical interest in collections and the fabrication of materia medica: moving …
Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism
Av Andreea Badea, Bruno Boute m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole. Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of …
Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World
Av Ruth Noyes
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed …
Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526-1600
Bohemian Polymath of the Rudolfine Period
Av Martin Zemla
Häftad, 2026
727 kr
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Tadeas Hajek of Hajek (1526–1600), Latinized as Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hagek/Hayek, was a key figure in early scientific debates not only in his native Bohemia. A versatile scholar and polymath, he was prolific in medicine, botany, mathematics and astronomy. Modern interpreters tended to point out …
Democratization of Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
The Philosopher and the People
Av Marco Sgarbi
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy. It establishes the boundaries of the present investigation within the Aristotelian tradition, and outlines democratization as a process capable of assigning power to people. It deals …
Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony
From Sound to Music
Inbunden, 2025
2586 kr
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Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony delves into the central role of music among the early modern sciences by focusing on the work of the French polymath Marin Mersenne (1588-1648).
Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526-1600
Bohemian Polymath of the Rudolfine Period
Av Martin Zemla
Inbunden, 2025
2197 kr
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Tadeas Hajek of Hajek (1526-1600), Latinized as Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hagek/Hayek, was a key figure in early scientific debates not only in his native Bohemia. In this volume, the contributors study various aspects of Hayek's thought to present a less tendentious intellectual portrait of him in the …
Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism
Av Andreea Badea, Bruno Boute m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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This book investigates how early modern actors managed not to succumb to postmodern relativism, despite the increasing uncertainties and blatant disagreements about the nature of God, Man, and the Universe. It focuses on practices of negotiating credibility, not on conflicting notions of the …
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England
Visual Communication and the Royal Society
Inbunden, 2022
2197 kr
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On the one hand, this study uncovers how approaches to knowledge production differed in the 17th century as compared with the 21st century. On the other, it reveals how the early modern struggle to sort through an overwhelming quantity of visual information - brought on by major changes in image …
Democratization of Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
The Philosopher and the People
Av Marco Sgarbi
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy. It establishes the boundaries of the present investigation within the Aristotelian tradition, and outlines democratization as a process capable of assigning power to people. It deals …
Reassessing Epistemic Images in the Early Modern World
Av Ruth Noyes
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed …
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge
An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Inbunden, 2025
2197 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline.
