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• Title:Vision and its instruments : art, science, and technology in early modern Europe / edited by Alina Payne.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Payne, Alina Alexandra, editor.
  
• Published/Created:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7430.5 .V485 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Visual perception.
  Art and science--Europe.
  Art and technology--Europe.
  
• Medical Subjects: Visual Perception
  
• Description:x, 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:"A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780271063898 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  0271063890 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Epistemic Images
  1. Epistemic Images / Lorraine Daston
  2. Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner / Sachiko Kusukawa
  3. Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science / Catherine Wilson
  II. Seeing the Unseeable
  4. Leonardo's Point / Frank Fehrenbach
  5. Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture / Alina Payne
  6. Dante's Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy / Gerhard Wolf
  7. Invisible Element in Art: Durer, Shakespeare, Donne / Carla Mazzio
  III. Painter's Brush and the Mind's Eye
  8. "Art on the Tip of the Brush": A Blind Manœuvre? Reflections on Correggio's Brush, Arent de Gelder's Spatula, and Pietro Testa's Figure of Practice / Nicola Suthor
  9. White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory / Karin Leonhard
  10. Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art / Claudia Swan
  IV. Looking Back: From Photography and Film to Alberti
  11. Sculpture Before Photography / Michael Cole.