The power of images in early modern science

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Published 2004cover on file

The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the early modern period. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.

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Publisher	Birkhauser, Birkhäuser
Pages	308
Search language	english
ISBN_10	3-764-32434-1 primary

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