Elemental, divine, magical, astronomical, magnetic or mechanical forces, to name just a few, were omnipresent in the life of early modern people. With the growing number of books made for the purpose of pedagogy and scientific communication, and the important role of images in these books, the question of how one could bring these forces to […]
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It is obvious, Athanasius Kircher declared in his voluminous Musurgia universalis (Rome, 1650), that nature is ordered harmonically. To describe this harmony he uses the term “natural music,” by which he includes the harmony of the heavens, the elements, and the human body. Only “artificial music” is actually sounding music. By viewing harmony as an
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How can we picture scale? In a text we can use descriptions filled with adjectives or comparisons to allow the reader to imagine the actual size of the object in question. However when making an image – be it in drawing or print – a series of different strategies are needed to convey size and
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How does vision work? How does sound arrive to our ears? And how can one visualize these sensory perceptions convincingly to a diverse readership, that might see and hear things differently? These questions became increasingly pertinent in the early modern period. With the introduction of instruments such as the microscope and telescope, the senses were transformed
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Expertise is predicated on cumulative experience. In order to make informed observations or develop scientific know-how individuals had to become active practitioners. It was embodied knowledge that served as the basis of scientific practice. Why then, did authors choose to include illustrations of practitioners at work in their treatises? In some cases like, Fra Giocondo’s
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Projekt: Tobias TeutenbergInhalte: Viviana Costagliola [VC]; Francesco Montuori [FM]; Aleksander Musiał [AM]; Oleksandra Osadcha [OO]; Dimitri Ozerkov [DO]; Seraina Renz [SR]; Tobias Teutenberg [TT]; Antonino Tranchina [AT]Editing: Gita Rajan, Meagane Elsie ZurfluhKoordination und Redaktion: Tobias Teutenberg; Oleksandra OsadchaRealisierung Web: Alexander Drummer, Hanna Sophie StegemannDigitalisierung der Rara: Anna Wilkens, Paola FilatroDLIB: Klaus Werner Besonderer Dank gilt
Adelung, Friedrich von: Kritisch-literärische Übersicht der Reisenden in Rußland bis 1700, deren Berichte bekannt sind [1864], 2 vols., Amsterdam 1960. Bausinger, Hermann, Klaus Beyrer and Gottfried Korff (eds.): Reisekultur. Von der Pilgerfahrt zum modernen Tourismus, München 1991. Bideaux, Michel (ed.): Européens en voyage (1500–1800). Un anthologie, Paris 2012. Blendinger, Friedrich: „Aus dem Leben des Schulmeisters und
Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger: Historischer Schulatlas. Von der Altsteinzeit bis zur Gegenwart [1877], 74th ed., Bielefeld/Berlin/Hannover: Velhagen & Klasing 1958 Signature: Zh 300-5590 Figures: Frontispiece; Map (“Europa 1914 bis 1918”); Map („Europa nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg“); Map („Bombenschäden“) Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger’s (1849–1913) Historischer Schulatlas / Historischer Weltatlas was first published in 1877. Its author, as he
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Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli: Atlante internazionale del Touring Club Italiano [1927], 2 vols., Milano: Touring Club Italiano 1956–1957, vol. 1 (1956) Signature: Zh 300-5561/[1] gr Figures: Frontispiece; Map (S.S.S.R.); Explanations to the map; Detail The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) was founded in Milan in 1894 to foster the use of bicycles. Later, its primary interest shifted
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Karl Baedecker: Russland nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking. Handbuch für Reisende [1883] Baedekers Reisehandbücher], 7th ed., Leipzig: Baedeker 1912 Signature: Mg 20-5120 raro II Figures: Frontispiece; Map („Russland“); Map („Kiew“); Map („Crimea“) The 1912 edition of the Baedeker travel guide of Russland nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking represents the pre-World-War I world order. The territory
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