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Transmitting knowledge

words, images, and instruments in early modern Europe

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Transmitting knowledge: words, images, and instruments in early modern Europe
2006, Oxford University Press
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Cover of: TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE: WORDS, IMAGES, AND INSTRUMENTS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE; ED. BY SACHIKO KUSUKAWA.

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Table of Contents

Visualization 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
509/.4
Library of Congress
Q127.E8 T73 2006, Q127.E8T73 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL3411288M
ISBN 10
019928878X
ISBN 13
9780199288786
LCCN
2005027342
OCLC/WorldCat
61748233
Library Thing
3573669
Goodreads
2778545

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