Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England

Visual Communication and the Royal Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6372-106-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Scientiae Studies

Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and connoisseurship; the role of an epistolary network in the production of knowledge; balancing readers’ expectations with representational conventions; and the effects of collecting on the creation and circulation of knowledge.

On the one hand, this study uncovers how approaches to knowledge production differed in the seventeenth century as compared with the twenty-first century. On the other, it reveals how the early modern struggle to sort through an overwhelming quantity of visual information - brought on by major changes in image production and circulation - resonates with our own.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doherty, Meghan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

“Claiming the Resemblance of Life”

“The Best in the World in this kind”

“An accurate impression is in far higher esteem”

“Each Judgement of his Eye”

“Examining it according to my usual manner”

1. “Innocent Witch-craft of Lights”: Developing Visual Judgment through Printed Books

The Magic of Projection

“Draw and Engrave their Schemes with Delight and Assurance”

“A fit subject for our kingdomes knowledge and practice”

Conclusion

2. “A New Visible World”: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for the Microscopic

The Visual Culture of Early Microscopy

Developing a “sincere Hand and a faithful Eye”

Making “a Plain Representation”

Engraving “the True Form”

3. “Nearly Resembling the Live Birds”: Collecting and Collating for the Reformation of Natural History

Resembling the Text: The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

Resembling the Printed Record: The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

Resembling the Living: The Smew (Mergus albellus)

Resembling the Dead: The Great Grey Gull

Conclusion

4. “These Rude Collections”: Accumulating Observations and Experiments

“The present figure of Saturn”

“With so much care and exactness”

Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Doherty, Meghan
Meghan C. Doherty is the Director of the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. Her research focuses on the connections between art and science, particularly as seen in the visual culture of the early Royal Society of London.