The Power of Images in Early Modern Science

Abstract

Introduction\tThe challenging images of artillery : practical knowledge at the roots of the scientific revolution 3Ships, science and the three traditions of early modern design\t28Art and artifice in the depiction of Renaissance machines\t47The limits of pictures : cognitive functions of images in practical mechanics - 1400 to 1600 69Reframing the language of inventions : the first theatre of machines 89Alchemical iconography at the dawn of the modern age : the splendor solis of Salomon Trismosin 107The invention of atomist iconography\t117Image and text in natural history, 1500-1700\t141Notes on the function of early zoological imagery\t167Elephant, mammoth, unicorn, or what? : notes on the interrelations of pictures and texts in Leibniz 181Planetary diagrams - descriptions, models, theories : from carolingian deployments to Copernican debates 197Images, models and symbols in Copernican propaganda\t227Edmond Halley and visual representation in natural philosophy 251Encyclopaedias and architecture in the sixteenth century\t265The mathematical sciences in Raphael's school of Athens\t289