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Kemp, Martin, "Vision and Visualization in the Illustration of Anatomy and Astronomy from Leonardo to Galileo", dins: Freeland Guy - Corones, Anthony (eds.), In 1543 and All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution, Londres-Dordrecht-Boston, Kluver Academic (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 13), 2000, 17-51.

Resum

The conjunction of the rise of the printed book as a prime means of transmitting information and the Renaissance reformulation of the means of visual representation was clearly an integral part of what we call the scientific revolution. On one level, it seems perfectly obvious that to be able to represent (say) a plant in a convincingly naturalistic manner in a printed botanical treatise would serve to provide straightforward instruction and to transmit checkable information to students of the natural world. Indeed, the polemic in favour of illustration by Leonhart Fuchs, introducing his great book on botanical science in 1542, provides early support for this view. He confronts those who ‘will cite the most insipid authority of Galen that no one who wants to describe plants should try to make pictures of them'.

Matèries

Història de la ciència
Història de la medicina
Impremta
Medicina - Farmacologia

URL

https:/​/​link.springer.com/​chapter/​10.1007%2F978-94- ...