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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

Visualizing & Communicating Medicine, Science & Technology

Double Vision by Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Diane Losche (Editor)
Publication Date: 1999
Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China by Francesca Bray (Editor); Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (Editor); Georges Metailie (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science by Brian S Baigrie
Publication Date: 1996
Science from Sight to Insight by Alan G. Gross; Joseph E. Harmon
Publication Date: 2013
The technical image : a history of styles in scientific imagery by Horst Bredekamp (Editor); Vera Dünkel (Editor); Birgit Schneider (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Visual Cultures in Science and Technology by Klaus Hentschel
Publication Date: 2014
Visual cultures of science : rethinking representational practices in knowledge building and science communication by L Pauwels
Publication Date: 2006

Women & Scientific Illustration

Collecting ladies : Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists by Penny Olsen
Publication Date: 2013
Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters by Ella Reitsma
Publication Date: 2008

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

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

Bibliographies

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science : a bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day
Publication Date: 1990

Life Sciences & Natural History

Arcimboldo by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publication Date: 2010
The Art of Botanical Illustration by Lys De Bray
Publication Date: 1997
The Art of Natural History by Therese O'Malley (Editor); Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith
Publication Date: 2009
Darwin's pictures : views of evolutionary theory, 1837-1874 by Julia Voss; Lori Lantz (Translator)
Publication Date: 2010
The insect and the image : visualizing nature in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 by Janice Neri
Publication Date: 2011
Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance : the legacy of the natural history by Sarah Blake McHam
Publication Date: 2013
Scenes from Deep Time by Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publication Date: 1992
Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550 by Jean A Givens; Karen Reeds; Alain Touwaide
Publication Date: 2006
Voyage into substance : art, science, nature, and the illustrated travel account, 1760-1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford
Publication Date: 1984
Zoological illustration : an essay towards a history of printed zoological pictures by David Knight
Publication Date: 1977

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

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.

Some of the volumes are available in BIZZELL STACKS
Images of science : a history of scientific illustration by Brian J. Ford
Publication Date: 1993, c1992
The image in print : book illustration in late medieval England and its sources by Martha W. Driver
Publication Date: 2004
Atlas of science : visualizing what we know by Katy Börner
Publication Date: 2010

Early Modern Era

Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands by Eric Jorink (Editor); B. A. M. Ramakers
Publication Date: 2011
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
Publication Date: 2006
Brilliant discourse : pictures and readers in early modern Rome by Evelyn Lincoln
Publication Date: 2014
Giants of Delft : Johannes Vermeer and the natural philosophers : the parallel search for knowledge during the age of discovery by Robert D. Huerta
Publication Date: 2003
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)
Publication Date: 2013
Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany by Sachiko Kusukawa
Publication Date: 2012
2014 Pfizer Award
Picturing the scientific revolution by Volker R. Remmert
Publication Date: 2011
The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by Urs Schoepflin; Wolfgang Lefèvre; Jürgen Renn
Publication Date: 2003
Wicked intelligence : visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London by Matthew C. Hunter
Publication Date: 2013

18th Century & Later

Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 by Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor); Lisa L. Ford
Publication Date: 2012
Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain by Claudia Schaefer
Publication Date: 2014
Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightement by William R Shea
Publication Date: 2011

Exhbitions

Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
Publication Date: 2011

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