The Power of Images in Early Modern Science
Lefèvre, Wolfgang / Schoepflin, Urs / Renn, Jürgen
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.