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Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Harvard Art Museums, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Other Authors: Dackerman, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums ; [2011]
Subjects:
Prints, European > 16th century > Exhibitions.
Prints, Renaissance > Exhibitions.
Art and science > Exhibitions.
Knowledge, Sociology of > Exhibitions.
Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century > Exhibitions.
Table of Contents:
  • Printmaking and knowledge
  • Constellations and configurations
  • Observing nature
  • Observation / Lorraine Daston
  • The rhinoceros
  • Dürer's indexical fantasy: the rhinoceros and printmaking / Susan Dackerman
  • Theater of nature
  • Illustrated natural history / Claudia Swan
  • Measurement
  • Printed instruments
  • Georg Hartmann and the development of printed instruments in Nuremberg / Suzanne Karr Schmidt
  • Mapping
  • Allegory
  • Allegories of knowledge / Katharine Park.