عنوان

Picturing the book of nature :

(Number (ISBN

0226465292

(Number (ISBN

9780226465296

Number

b425889

Title Proper

Picturing the book of nature :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sachiko Kusukawa

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 331 pages :

Other Physical Details

col. illustrations, color map ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index

Text of Note

Printing pictures -- Techniques and craftsmen -- Publishers' calculations -- Copying and coloring -- Control -- Picturing medicinal plants -- Accidents and arguments : Fuchs's De historia stirpium -- Arguments over pictures : reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium -- Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum -- The authority of pictures : Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer -- Picturing human anatomy -- Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy -- The canon of the human body : Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica -- Text, image, body, and the book

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Text of Note

"Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner's unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illustrations were integral to the emergence of a new type of argument during this period -- a visual argument for the scientific study of nature. To set the stage, Kusukawa begins with a survey of the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. It was during the first half of the sixteenth century that learned authors began using images in their research and writing, but because the technology was so new, there was a great deal of variety of thought -- and often disagreement -- about exactly what images could do: how they should be used, what degree of authority should be attributed to them, which graphic elements were bearers of that authority, and what sorts of truths images could and did encode. Kusukawa investigates the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesalius in light of these debates, scrutinizing the scientists' treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works. What results is a fascinating and original study of the visual dimension of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century."--From the dust-jacket front flap

Art and science-- History-- 16th century

Botanical illustration-- Europe-- History-- 16th century

Illustrated books-- Europe-- History-- 16th century

Medical illustration-- History-- 16th century

Natural history illustration-- Europe-- History-- 16th century

Botany-- history-- Europe

History, 16th Century-- Europe

Medical Illustration-- history-- Europe

Natural History-- Europe

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Book number

Kusukawa, Sachiko

Date of Transaction

20120807074733.0

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[Book]

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