Table of Contents
Introduction, Richard Scholar1. Visualization in Renaissance Optics: The Function of Geometrical Diagrams and Pictures in the Transmission of Practical Knowledge, Sven Dupré2. Medieval Sundials and Manuscript Sources: The Transmission of Information about the Navicula and the organum ptolomei in Fifteenth-Century Europe, Catherine Eagleton3. The Uses of Pictures in the Formation of Learned Knowledge: The Cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius, Sachiko Kusukawa4. Where Logical Necessity Becomes Visual Persuasion: Descartes's Clear and Distinct Illustrations, Christopher Lüthy5. Diagrams in the Defence of Galen: Medical Uses of Tables, Squares, Dichotomies, Wheels, and Latitudes, 1480-1574, Ian Maclean6. The Production and Distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625), Alexander Marr7. Objects of Knowledge: Mathematics and Models in Sixteenth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy, Adam Mosley8. Kepler's Epitome: New Images for an Innovative Book, Isabelle Pantin9. 'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their Functions, and their Audiences in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Sciences, Volker R. RemmertIndex