Picturing the book of nature: image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
Auteur :
Kusukawa, Sachiko
Éditeur :
Kusukawa, Sachiko
ISBN :
9780226465296
Date de publication :
22 juin 2012
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
1270 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Surveys the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. This title investigates the works of Leonhart Fuchs, Conrad Gessner, and Andreas Vesalius, scrutinizing the scientists' treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works.