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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
By Susan Dackerman (editor), Katharine Park (contributor), Suzanne Karr Schmidt (contributor), Claudia Swan (contributor) and Lorraine Daston (contributor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Yale Univ Pr
Publication date September 27, 2011
Pages 442
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780300171075
ISBN-10 0300171072
Dimensions 1.25 by 9.75 by 12.75 in.
Weight 6.46 lbs.
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Original list price $60.00
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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 Dürer 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 Europe features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.


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With Claudia Swan (other contributor), Lorraine Daston (other contributor), Susan Dackerman (other contributor), Suzanne Karr Schmidt (other contributor) | from Yale Univ Pr (September 27, 2011)
9780300171075 | details & prices | 442 pages | 9.75 × 12.75 × 1.25 in. | 6.46 lbs | List price $60.00
About: 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.

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