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Observing the world through images
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ISBN: 9789004263840 9789004263857 9004263853 9004263845 1306210356 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden

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The well-illustrated articles in Observing the World through Images offer insights into the uses of images in astronomy, mathematics, instrument-making, medicine and alchemy, highlighting shared forms as well as those peculiar to individual disciplines. Themes addressed include: the processes of image production and communication; the transformation of images through copying and adaptation for new purposes; genres and traditions of imagery in particular scientific disciplines; the mnemonic and pedagogical value of diagrams; the relationship between text and image; and the roles of diagrams as tools to think with. Contributors include: Isabelle Pantin, Jennifer Rampling, Samuel Gessner, Renee Raphael, Karin Ekholm, Hester Higton, and Katie Taylor.

Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy
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ISBN: 0520205081 0520917782 0585081484 9780520205086 0520073347 9780520917781 9780585081489 Year: 1994 Volume: 20 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory.Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.

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7.074 "15/16" --- 7:33 --- 069 <09> --- 094:5 --- 094:5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 069 <09> Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van ... --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van ... --- 7:33 Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel-:-Economie. Economische wetenschappen. Staatshuishoudkunde --(algemeen) --- Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel-:-Economie. Economische wetenschappen. Staatshuishoudkunde --(algemeen) --- 7.074 "15/16" Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars--?"15/16" --- Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars--?"15/16" --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- Italy --- Renaissance --- cabinets of curiosities [rooms] --- science --- Nature --- Art --- anno 1500-1599 --- Natural history museums -- Europe -- History. --- Natural history museums -- Italy -- History. --- Science museums -- Europe -- History. --- Science museums -- Italy -- History. --- Science museums --- Natural history museums --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Natural history --- Science --- Science centers --- Museums --- History --- History. --- Sciences --- Sciences naturelles --- Musées --- Histoire --- Musées --- science [modern discipline] --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van .. --- Sciences - Musées - Italie - Histoire --- Sciences - Musées - Europe - Histoire --- Sciences naturelles - Musées - Italie - Histoire --- Sciences naturelles - Musées - Europe - Histoire --- Science museums - Italy - History --- Science museums - Europe - History --- Natural history museums - Italy - History --- Natural history museums - Europe - History --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Geschiedenis van --- 1500s. --- academic. --- ancient world. --- archival. --- archives. --- art museum. --- baroque. --- biology. --- european history. --- experiment. --- humanist. --- life science. --- modern world. --- museum. --- natural history museum. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- reconstruction. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- renaissance. --- scholarly. --- science. --- scientific revolution. --- university. --- collecting, Italy --- naturaliën --- collecting curiosities

The science of describing : natural history in Renaissance Europe
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ISBN: 128196610X 9786611966102 0226620867 9780226620862 9780226620879 0226620875 9781281966100 0226620875 6611966102 0226620883 9780226620886 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. To do so, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. By the early seventeenth century, naturalists began the daunting task of sorting through the wealth of information they had accumulated, putting a new emphasis on taxonomy and classification. Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, and photographs, The Science of Describing is the first broad interpretation of Renaissance natural history in more than a generation and will appeal widely to an interdisciplinary audience.

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Science --- Natural history --- Science, Renaissance. --- Renaissance science --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- History --- Science, Renaissance --- 094:58 --- 094:59 --- 094:59 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Zoologie. Dierkunde --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Zoologie. Dierkunde --- 094:58 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- science [modern discipline] --- description [activity] --- 42.05 natural history. --- Beschreibung. --- Illustration. --- Kunst. --- Natur. --- Natural history. --- Naturbeobachtung. --- Naturgeschichte --- Natuurlijke historie. --- Renaissance. --- Science. --- Sciences de la Renaissance. --- Sciences naturelles --- Wissenschaft. --- Histoire --- 1500-1599. --- Geschichte 1420-1600. --- Geschichte 1500-1650. --- Europa --- Europa. --- Europe. --- Illustration --- Kunst --- Wissenschaft --- Science - Europe - History - 16th century. --- Natural history - Europe - History - 16th century. --- science, scientific, natural history, historical context, renaissance, europe, european, description, traditions, medical humanism, classical philosophy, philosophical, naturalists, naturalism, discovery, discovering, plants, animals, correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, art, artwork, drawings, development, distinguishing, cataloging, characteristics, species, nature, taxonomy, classification, 16th century, interdisciplinary studies, common sense.


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Art in dispute : Catholic debates at the time of Trent : with an edition and translation of key documents
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ISBN: 9789004472235 9789004421288 9004472231 9004421289 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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"The Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Trent (1563). Art in Dispute revisits this response by focusing on its antecedents rather than its consequences. The mid-sixteenth century saw, besides new scholarship on Byzantine doctrines, heated debates about neo-scholastic interpretations. Disagreement, suppressed at Trent but re-emerging soon afterwards, centered on the question whether religious images were solely signs referring to holy subjects or also sacred objects in their own right. It was a debate with major implications for art theory and devotional practice. The volume contains editions and translations of texts by Martín Pérez de Ayala, Matthieu Ory, Jean Calvin, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, and Iacopo Nacchianti, along with a previously unknown draft of the Tridentine decree"--


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De Antwerpse spelen van 1561 : naar de editie Silvius (Antwerpen 1562) uitgegeven met inleiding, annotaties en registers
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ISSN: 13748750 ISBN: 9789072474858 9072474856 Year: 2011 Volume: 19 Publisher: Gent : Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde,

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Op 3 augustus 1561 maakten veertien Brabantse rederijkerskamers hun opwachting voor de Antwerpse Keizerspoort. Zij zouden de daaropvolgende weken deelnemen aan de slotwedstrijd van het Brabantse landjuweel, een toneelwedstrijdcyclus die al in 1515 van start was gegaan. Het Antwerps concours vormt in velerlei opzichten een mijlpaal in de toneel- en literatuurgeschiedenis van de Nederlanden. Nooit eerder konden zoveel dichters in zo'n korte tijdspanne zo'n verscheidenheid aan genres aan zoveel geïnteresseerden tegelijk presenteren. De faam van het tornooi overleefde de beroerlijke tijden en zijn eigen inrichters dankzij de gedenkbundel Spelen van sinne, die koninklijk drukker Willem Silvius in de herfst van 1562 op de markt bracht: twee rijk geïllustreerde boekdelen met de landjuweelteksten in een kwarto van 312 folio's en met de haagspelteksent in een kwarto van 66 folio's. De bundel bevat niet alleen de teksten van één van de grootste literaire manifestaties uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis, het zijn ook de eerste landjuweelteksten die ooit zijn gepubliceerd. Bovendien bevat de bundel de meest representatieve productie van de rederijkerij in al haar diversiteit: prozateksten, balladen, refreinen, liederen en 59 toneelstukken, waaronder 18 spelen van sinne. Op Europees niveau vormt de editie Silvius door haar volume en verscheidenheid aan genres een unieke bron van toneelcultuur in de volkstaal. Uit de ons omringende cultuurgebieden is een manifestatie als het Antwerpse landjuweel, een combinatie van dramatische expressievormen en stedelijke feestcultuur, op dergelijke schaal onbekend. Hoewel de Antwerpse bundel de meest representatieve verzameling landjuweelteksten vormt, was er tot voor kort nog geen moderne uitgave van de editie Silvius beschikbaar. De Antwerpse spelen van 1561, de integrale studie-editie van alle Antwerpse landjuweelteksten met inleiding, annotaties en register, brengt daar nu verandering in.

In his milieu : essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias
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ISBN: 9789053569337 9053569332 9048501601 1429472707 9781429472708 9789048501601 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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In honor of Michael Montias' contributions to the field of the history of art, an international group of leading scholars have contributed essays to mark his achievements.


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Gateways to the book : frontispieces and title pages in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9789004464520 9789004459328 9004464522 9004459324 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill,

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Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages, many printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field from a great variety of academic approaches asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.

Matters of exchange : commerce, medicine, and science in the Dutch Golden Age
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ISBN: 0300117965 9780300117967 9786611734770 1281734772 0300134924 9780300134926 9780300143218 0300143214 9781281734778 6611734775 Year: 2007 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook scrutinizes a wealth of historical documents relating to the study of medicine and natural history in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, Brazil, South Africa, and Asia during this era, and his conclusions are fresh and exciting. He uncovers direct links between the rise of trade and commerce in the Dutch Empire and the flourishing of scientific investigation. Cook argues that engaging in commerce changed the thinking of Dutch citizens, leading to a new emphasis on such values as objectivity, accumulation, and description. The preference for accurate information that accompanied the rise of commerce also laid the groundwork for the rise of science globally, wherever the Dutch engaged in trade. Medicine and natural history were fundamental aspects of this new science, as reflected in the development of gardens for both pleasure and botanical study, anatomical theaters, curiosity cabinets, and richly illustrated books about nature. Sweeping in scope and original in its insights, this book revises previous understandings of the history of science and ideas.

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Science --- Science. --- Medicine --- Natural Science Disciplines --- History --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Disciplines and Occupations --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Humanities --- History, 17th Century --- History of Medicine --- Commerce --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Netherlands --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- The Netherlands --- Pays-Bas --- Países Baixos --- Holland --- Spanish Netherlands --- Pays-Bas espagnols --- Austrian Netherlands --- Pays-Bas autrichiens --- Oostenrijkse Nederlanden --- Southern Netherlands --- Pays-Bas méridionaux --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden --- Niderlandy --- Belanda --- Nederland --- Koninkrijk der Nederlanden --- Reino dos Países Baixos --- Royaume des Pays-Bas --- Kingdom of the Netherlands --- Países Bajos --- Holanda --- Nederlân --- Hulanda --- Beulanda --- Niderland --- Niderlande --- هولندا --- مملكة هولندا --- Mamlakat Hūlandā --- Olanda --- Payis-Bâs --- Países Baxos --- Aynacha Jach'a Markanaka --- Nirlan --- Niderland Krallığı --- Kē-tē-kok --- Landa --- Kerajaan Landa --- Нидерландтар --- Niderlandtar --- Нидерландтар Короллеге --- Niderlandtar Korollege --- Нідэрланды --- Каралеўства Нідэрланды --- Karaleŭstva Nidėrlandy --- Nederlands --- Niadaland --- Holandija --- Kraljevina Holandija --- Izelvroioù --- Нидерландия --- Niderlandii︠a︡ --- Кралство Нидерландия --- Kralstvo Niderlandii︠a︡ --- Països Baixos --- Нидерландсем --- Niderlandsem --- Нидерландсен Патшалăхĕ --- Niderlandsen Patshalăkhĕ --- Nizozemsko --- Paesi Bassi --- Regnu di i Paesi Bassi --- Iseldiroedd --- Nederlandene --- Niederlande --- Kéyah Wóyahgo Siʼánígíí --- Nižozemska --- Kralojstwo Nederlandow --- Madalmaad --- Ολλανδία --- Ollandia --- Hollandia --- Κάτω Χώρες --- Katō Chōres --- Βασίλειο των Κάτω Χωρών --- Vasileio tōn Katō Chōrōn --- Nederlando --- Reĝlando Nederlando --- Paisis Bajus --- Herbehereak --- Herbehereetako Erresumaren --- هلند --- Huland --- Niðurlond --- Háland --- Paîs Bas --- Neerlande --- Ísiltír --- Ríocht na hÍsiltíre --- Çheer Injil --- Çheer y Vagheragh --- Reeriaght ny Çheer Injil --- Tìrean Ìsle --- Hò-làn --- Недерлендин Нутг --- Nederlendin Nutg --- 네덜란드 --- Nedŏllandŭ --- Hōlani --- Nederlandia --- Pais Basse --- Regno del Paises Basse --- Нидерландтæ --- Niderlandtæ --- Нидерландты Къаролад --- Niderlandty Kʺarolad --- Konungsríkið Holland --- הולנד --- Holand --- ממלכת ארצות השפלה --- Mamlekhet Artsot ha-Shefelah --- Walanda --- Hollandi --- Нидерландла --- Niderlandla --- Нидерландланы Королевствосу --- Niderlandlany Korolevstvosu --- Néderlandzkô --- Нидерланд --- Iseldiryow --- Ubuholandi --- Ubuhorandi --- Nederilande --- Нидерланддар --- Niderlanddar --- Uholanzi --- Ufalme wa Nchi za Chini --- Нидерландъяс --- Niderlandʺi︠a︡s --- Нидерландъяс Корольув --- Niderlandʺi︠a︡s Korolʹuv --- Peyiba --- Holenda --- Keyatiya Nederlandan --- Payises Bashos --- פאייסיס באשוס --- Nīderlandeja --- Batavia --- Regni Nederlandiarum --- Nīderlandes Karaliste --- Nyderlandai --- Nyderlandų Karalystė --- Paixi Basci --- Paes Bass --- Ulanda --- Holland Királyság --- Keninkryk fan 'e Nederlannen --- Reino di Hulanda --- Холандија --- Кралство Холандија --- Kralstvo Holandija --- Pajjiżi l-Baxxi --- Hōrana --- Недерлатт --- Nederlatt --- Оцязорксши Недерлатт --- Ot︠s︡i︠a︡zorksshi Nederlatt --- Нидерландын Вант Улс --- Niderlandyn Vant Uls --- Tlanitlālpan --- Huēyitlahtohcāyōtl in Tlanitlālpan --- Eben Eyong --- Nederlaand --- オランダ --- Oranda --- オランダ王国 --- Oranda Ōkoku --- Ulanna --- Nethiland --- Nederlande --- Holandska --- 509.492 --- Sciences History Netherlands --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Holland (Kingdom) --- Batavian Republic --- United Provinces of the Netherlands --- History of the Netherlands --- Pharmacology. Therapy --- Economic relations. Trade --- anno 1600-1699 --- Health Workforce --- Natural sciences


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The frigid golden age : climate change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720
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ISBN: 9781108419314 1108419313 9781108410410 9781108297639 1108317588 1108297633 1108321305 1108410413 9781108321303 9781108317580 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.

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