Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
Yale University Press,
2011.
Paperback (324 by 248mm), 440pp.
15009
notes:
An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers co...
bibliography:
provenance: