Logodaedalus

Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4541-3
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Longdaedalus, a prehistory of the idea of genius, explores the various ways this language of ingenuity was defined, used, and manipulated between 1470 and 1750. By analyzing printed dictionaries and other lexical works across a range of languages-Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German and Dutch-the authors reveal ways in which significant words produced meaning in history and found expression in natural philosophy, medicine, natural history, mathematics, mechanics, poetics and artistic theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marr, Alexander

Garrod, Raphaële

Marcaida, José Ramón

Oosterhoff, Richard J

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.

Raphaële Garrod is associate professor in early modern French at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. She is the author of Cosmographical Novelties: Dialectic and Discovery in French Renaissance Prose.

José Ramón Marcaida is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Arte y ciencia en el Barroco español. Historia natural, coleccionismo y cultura visual.

Richard J. Oosterhoff is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Edinburgh. His first book is Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples.