The Power of Images in Early Modern Science
Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work must be assumed if its analysis is only based shops organized
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Editors: Wolfgang Lefevre Jurgen Renn Urs Schoepflin Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Wilhelmstr. 44 D-10117-Berlin
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Contents
Introduction (Wolfgang Lefevre, Jurgen Renn, and Urs Schoepflin)
VII
I. Mechanics Between Practical and Theoretical Knowledge and the Mediatory Function of Images The Challenging Images of Artillery: Practical Knowledge at the Roots of the Scientific Revolution (Jochen Buttner, Peter Damerow, Jurgen Renn, and Matthias Schemmel)
3
Ships, Science and the Three Traditions of Early Modern Design (David McGee)
28
Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines (Paolo Galluzzi)
47
The Limits of Pictures: Cognitive Functions of Images in Practical Mechanics - 1400 to 1600
69
(Wolfgang Lefevre)
Reframing the Language of Inventions: The First Theatre of Machines (Luisa M. Dolza)
89
II. Theories of Matter Between Alchemy and Atomism and the Autonomy of Images Alchemical Iconography at the Dawn of the Modern Age: The Splendor solis of Salomon Trismosin (Anne-Fran{:oise Cannella)
107
The Invention of Atomist Iconography (Christoph Luthy)
117
III. The Classification of Life and the Interaction Between Images and Texts Image and Text in Natural History, 1500-1700 (Brian W Ogilvie)
141
Notes on the Function of Early Zoological Imagery (Allan Ellenius)
167
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IV. Depicting the World at Large and the Hidden Potential of Images 197
Planetary Diagrams - Descriptions, Models, Theories: From Carolingian Deployments to Copernican Debates (Bruce Eastwood and Gerd Gra/lhoff)
227
Images, Models and Symbols in Copernican Propaganda (Giancarlo Nonnoi)
251
Edmond Halley and Visual Representation in Natural Philosophy (Alan Cook)
V. Systems of Knowledge and their Representation by Images 265
Encyclopaedias and Architecture in the Sixteenth Century (Annarita Angelini)
289
The Mathematical Sciences in Raphael's School of Athens (Matthias Winner)
