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Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
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- Creator
- edited by Susan Dackerman ; with essays by Susan Dackerman ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums ; New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 442 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300171075, 9781891771583, 1891771582, 0300238363, 9780300238365, 0300171072
- OCLC
- ocn713187478, on1042077102
- Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Printmaking and knowledge -- Constellations and configurations -- Observing nature -- Observation / Lorraine Daston -- The rhinoceros -- Dürer's indexical fantasy: the rhinoceros and printmaking / Susan Dackerman -- Theater of nature -- Illustrated natural history / Claudia Swan -- Measurement -- Printed instruments -- Georg Hartmann and the development of printed instruments in Nuremberg / Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- Mapping -- Allegory -- Allegories of knowledge / Katharine Park