Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Name: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780300171075

ISBN-10: 0300171072

ISBN-13: 9780300171075

Edition: 2011

Authors: Susan Dackerman, Claudia Swan, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston

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An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Durer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europefeatures fascinating…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 442
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 6.446
Language: English