Название: The Power of Images in Early Modern ScienceАвтор: Wolfgang Lefevre, Jurgen Renn
Издательство: Birkhauser Verlag
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Размер: 69 Мб
Язык: английский / English
The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. 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.