Transmitting knowledge : words, images, and instruments in early modern Europe / edited by Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2006], ©2006.

xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visualization in renaissance optics : the function of geometrical diagrams and pictures in the transmission of practical knowledge / Sven Dupré -- Medieval sundials and manuscript sources : the transmission of information about the navicula and the organum Ptolomei in fifteenth-century Europe / Catherine Eagleton -- The uses of pictures in the formation of learned knowledge : the cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Where logical necessity becomes visual persuasion : Descartes's clear and distinct illustrations / Christoph Lüthy -- Diagrams in the defence of Galen : medical uses of tables, squares, dichotomies, wheels, and latitudes, 1480-1574 / Ian Maclean -- The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625) / Alexander Marr -- Objects of knowledge : mathematics and models in sixteenth-century cosmology and astronomy / Adam Mosley -- Kepler's epitome : new images for an innovative book / Isabelle Pantin -- 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their functions, and their audiences in seventeenth-century mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert.