William R. Shea, editor
"...an impressive collection of scholarly essays which examine the role illustrations played in the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge...enthusiastically recommended to students of the history of science in general, and European 18th century science illustration in particular." Midwest Book Review
"...Il volume è riccamente illustrato con innumerevoli figure nel testo di tutti i saggi, con sedici Tavole a colori fuori testo e pubblicato secondo gli eccellenti standard editoriali di N. Watson." NUNCIUS
"This is a book that should never have been published. The small amount of valuable material it contains could well have appeared in the form of articles. The volume is a hodgepodge of diverse essays of variable quality...The level of historical analysis is at times embarrassingly simplistic and surprisingly Whiggish..." Ludmilla Jordanova, BJHS
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Experiments and the Image of Enlightened Science
John Heilbron, "Domesticating Science in the Eighteenth Century."
Werner Busch, "Joseph Wright of Derby – Art, Science and the Validity of Artistic Language."
William Shea, "The Rhetoric of Experiments and Scientific Illustrations in the Enlightenment."
Marco Beretta, "Chemical Imagery and the Enlightenment of Matter."
Fernand Hallyn, "Some Reflections on Geometrical Diagrams and Mathematical Physics."
II. The Image of Nature in Museums, Gardens and Textbook Material
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, "Naturalistic Illustrations and Collections in Tuscany in the Eighteenth Century."
Jim Bennett, "Instruments and Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century Astronomy."
Carmelia Opsomer, "Illustrated Courses of Natural Philosophy in the Southern Low Countries, 1670-1797."
Julia Lindkvist, "Women Illustrators of Natural History in the Enlightenment."
Carla Oldenburger, "Catalogues of Dutch Botanical Gardens in the Enlightenment."
Index of Names
European Studies in Science History
and the Arts 4,
2000, vii + 240pp., illustrated, black & white and color, ISBN 0-88135-285-3, $39.95