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001 2005027342
003 DLC
005 20051004111053.0
008 050920s2006 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005027342
020 $a9780199288786 (alk. paper)
020 $a019928878X (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aQ127.E8$bT73 2006
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245 00 $aTransmitting knowledge :$bwords, images, and instruments in early modern Europe /$cedited by Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2006.
263 $a0606
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aVisualization in renaissance optics : the function of geometrical diagrams and pictures in the transmission of practical knowledge / Sven Dupré -- Medieval sundials and manuscript sources : the transmission of information about the navicula and the organum Ptolomei in fifteenth-century Europe / Catherine Eagleton -- The uses of pictures in the formation of learned knowledge : the cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Where logical necessity becomes visual persuasion : Descartes's clear and distinct illustrations / Christoph Lüthy -- Diagrams in the defence of Galen : medical uses of tables, squares, dichotomies, wheels, and latitudes, 1480-1574 / Ian Maclean -- The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625) / Alexander Marr -- Objects of knowledge : mathematics and models in sixteenth-century cosmology and astronomy / Adam Mosley -- Kepler's epitome : new images for an innovative book / Isabelle Pantin -- 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their functions, and their audiences in seventeenth-century mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert.
650 0 $aScience$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aNatural history$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$zEurope$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aNatural history$zEurope$xPhilosophy.
700 1 $aKusukawa, Sachiko.
700 1 $aMaclean, Ian,$d1945-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027342.html