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Book The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs  Facsimile

Download or read book The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs Facsimile written by Frederick Gustav Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See publisher description:

Book Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes

Download or read book Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes written by and published by . This book was released on 1542 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes    Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Download or read book De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants written by Leonhart Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes

Download or read book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes written by Leonhart Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A digitized facsimile of the 1542 Basel edition of the Historia stirpium from a copy in the Warnock Library. Includes commentary by Karen Reeds, index of modern plant names. Text is searchable and displays may be magnified.

Book Atlas of plates from his De historia stirpium commentarii insignes

Download or read book Atlas of plates from his De historia stirpium commentarii insignes written by Leonhart Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1545 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Botanica

Download or read book Botanica written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The great herbal of Leonhart Fuchs

Download or read book The great herbal of Leonhart Fuchs written by Leonhart Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes

Download or read book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes written by Leonhard Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picturing the Book of Nature

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  • Author : Sachiko Kusukawa
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-05-21
  • ISBN : 0226465292
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Picturing the Book of Nature written by Sachiko Kusukawa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner’s unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illustrations were integral to the emergence of a new type of argument during this period—a visual argument for the scientific study of nature. To set the stage, Kusukawa begins with a survey of the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. It was during the first half of the sixteenth century that learned authors began using images in their research and writing, but because the technology was so new, there was a great deal of variety of thought—and often disagreement—about exactly what images could do: how they should be used, what degree of authority should be attributed to them, which graphic elements were bearers of that authority, and what sorts of truths images could and did encode. Kusukawa investigates the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesalius in light of these debates, scrutinizing the scientists’ treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works. What results is a fascinating and original study of the visual dimension of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century.

Book French Vernacular Books   Livres vernaculaires fran  ais  FB   2 vols

Download or read book French Vernacular Books Livres vernaculaires fran ais FB 2 vols written by Andrew Pettegree and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.

Book History of Illustration

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  • Author : Susan Doyle
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2018-02-22
  • ISBN : 1501342118
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book History of Illustration written by Susan Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--

Book On the Germination  Development  and Fructification of the Higher Cryptogamia  and on the Fructification of the Coniferae

Download or read book On the Germination Development and Fructification of the Higher Cryptogamia and on the Fructification of the Coniferae written by Wilhelm Hofmeister and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The great herbal of Leonhart Fuchs

Download or read book The great herbal of Leonhart Fuchs written by Leonhart Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transmitting Knowledge

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  • Author : Sachiko Kusukawa
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 019928878X
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Transmitting Knowledge written by Sachiko Kusukawa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the fifteenth and the middle of the seventeenth centuries saw a great many changes and innovations in scientific thinking. These were communicated to various publics in diverse ways; not only through discursive prose and formal notations, but also in the form of instruments and images accompanying texts. The collected essays of this volume examine the modes of transmission of this knowledge in a variety of contexts. The schematic representation of instruments is examined in the case of the 'navicula' (a versatile version of a sundial) and the 'squadro' (a surveying instrument); the new forms of illustration of plants and the human body are investigated through the work of Fuchs and Vesalius; theories of optics and of matter are discussed in relation to the illustrations which accompany the texts of Ausonio and Descartes. The different diagrammatic strategies adopted to explain the complex medical theory of the latitude of health are charted through the work of medieval and sixteenth-century physicians; Kepler's use of illustration in his handbook of cosmology is placed in the context of book production and Copernican propaganda. The conception of astronomical instruments as either calculating devices or as cosmological models is examined in the case of Tycho Brahe and others. A study is devoted to the multiple functions of frontispieces and to the various readerships for which they were conceived. The papers in the volume are all based on new research, and they constitute together a coherent and convergent set of case studies which demonstrate the vitality and inventiveness of early modern natural philosophers, and their awareness of the media available to them for transmitting knowledge.

Book The Seventeenth Century Orange Nassau Library

Download or read book The Seventeenth Century Orange Nassau Library written by A.D. Renting and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited with introduction and notes. With notes on the manuscripts by A.S. Korteweg.

Book Historia

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  • Author : Gianna Pomata
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0262162296
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Historia written by Gianna Pomata and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits. The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines--including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and philology--indicates how closely intertwined these scholarly pursuits were in the early modern period. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that historia can be considered a key epistemic tool of early modern intellectual practices. Focusing on the actual use of historia across disciplines, the essays highlight a distinctive feature of early modern descriptive sciences: the coupling of observational skills with philological learning, empiricism with erudition. Thus the essays bring to light previously unexamined links between the culture of humanism and the scientific revolution. The contributors, from a range of disciplines that echoes the broad scope of early modern historia, examine such topics as the development of a new interest in historical method from the Renaissance artes historicae to the eighteenth-century tension between "history" and "system"; shifts in Aristotelian thought paving the way for revaluation of historia as descriptive knowledge; the rise of the new discipline of natural history; the uses of historia in anatomical and medical investigation and the writing of history by physicians; parallels between the practices of collecting and presenting information in both natural history and antiquarianism; and significant examples of the ease with which early seventeenth-century antiquarian scholars moved from studies of nature to studies of culture.

Book A Voyage Into the Levant

Download or read book A Voyage Into the Levant written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: