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Galileo's World Guide: Art

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Visualizing & Communicating Medicine, Science & Technology

Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China by Francesca Bray (Editor); Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (Editor); Georges Metailie (Editor)
ISBN: 9789004160637

Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science
The technical image : a history of styles in scientific imagery by Horst Bredekamp (Editor); Vera Dünkel (Editor); Birgit Schneider (Editor)
ISBN: 9780226258843

Publication Date: 2015-04-17
Visual cultures of science : rethinking representational practices in knowledge building and science communication

Bibliographies

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science : a bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day

Astronomical Images

Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science
Picturing the cosmos Hubble Space Telescope images and the astronomical sublime by Elizabeth A. Kessler
ISBN: 9780816679577

Publication Date: 2012-11-24

Periods & Places

Double vision : art histories and colonial histories in the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Diane Losche (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521659987

Publication Date: 1999-04-26

Maps & Images

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer
ISBN: 9780712358903

Publication Date: 2013-06-15
Ships on Maps by Richard W. Unger
ISBN: 9780230231641

Publication Date: 2010-09-15

Overviews & Introductory Works

Album of Science
Publication Date: 1978-1989

Antiquity and the Middle Ages
From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800
The Nineteenth Century
The Biological Sciences in the 20th Century
The Physical Sciences in the 20th Century

A notable feature of this multivolume series is the inclusion of images from books, offering a stunning visual perspective on the history of science, technology, and medicine from antiquity to the present.
Images of science : a history of scientific illustration
The image in print : book illustration in late medieval England and its sources by Martha W. Driver
ISBN: 9780712348331

Publication Date: 2004-05-30
Atlas of science : visualizing what we know by Katy Börner
ISBN: 9780262014458

Publication Date: 2010-09-17

Early Modern Era

Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands by Eric Jorink (Editor); B. A. M. Ramakers
ISBN: 9789040078088

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

This yearbook of Dutch art history examines the relationship between art and science.
The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution by Pamela H. Smith
ISBN: 9780226764238

Publication Date: 2006-10-15
Brilliant discourse : pictures and readers in early modern Rome by Evelyn Lincoln
ISBN: 9780300204193

Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Giants of Delft : Johannes Vermeer and the natural philosophers : the parallel search for knowledge during the age of discovery
Observing the world through images diagrams and figures in the early-modern arts and sciences by Christoph Herbert Luthy (Contribution by); Nicholas Jardine (Volume Editor); Isla Fay (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 9789004263840

Publication Date: 2013-11-25
Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by Urs Schoepflin; Wolfgang Lefèvre; Jürgen Renn
ISBN: 9783764324346

Publication Date: 2003-07-23
Picturing the Book of Nature by Sachiko Kusukawa
ISBN: 0226465292

Publication Date: 2012

2014 Pfizer Award
Picturing the scientific revolution
Wicked intelligence : visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London by Matthew C. Hunter
ISBN: 9780226017297

Publication Date: 2013-10-15

Art, Optics & Instruments

Baroque Science by Ofer Gal; Raz Chen-Morris
ISBN: 9780226923987

Publication Date: 2013-03-18
Galileo's Glassworks by Eileen Reeves
ISBN: 9780674026674

Publication Date: 2008-01-31
Influences : art, optics, and astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath
ISBN: 9780226922843

Publication Date: 2013-02-20
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope by Samuel Y. Edgerton
ISBN: 9780801447587

Publication Date: 2009-02-05
Painting the Heavens by Eileen Reeves
ISBN: 9780691009766

Publication Date: 1999-10-17

Life Sciences & Natural History

Arcimboldo by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
ISBN: 9780226426860

Publication Date: 2010-05-01
The Art of Botanical Illustration by Lys De Bray
ISBN: 9781577150237

Publication Date: 1997-10-01
The Art of Natural History by Therese O'Malley (Editor); Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor)
ISBN: 9780300160246

Publication Date: 2010-03-16
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith
ISBN: 9780521135795

Publication Date: 2009-05-14
Darwin's pictures : views of evolutionary theory, 1837-1874 by Julia Voss; Lori Lantz (Translator)
ISBN: 9780300141740

Publication Date: 2010-06-15
The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700
Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance : the legacy of the natural history
Scenes from Deep Time by Martin J. S. Rudwick
ISBN: 9780226731049

Publication Date: 1992-12-15
Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550
Voyage into substance : art, science, nature, and the illustrated travel account, 1760-1840
Zoological illustration : an essay towards a history of printed zoological pictures by David Knight

Women & Scientific Illustration

Collecting ladies : Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists
ISBN: 9780642277534
Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters by Ella Reitsma
ISBN: 9780892369386

Publication Date: 2008-09-08

18th Century & Later

Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 by Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor); Lisa L. Ford
ISBN: 9780300111040

Publication Date: 2012-02-21
Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain by Claudia Schaefer
ISBN: 9781438452739

Publication Date: 2014-09-01
Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightement