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The Early Royal Society and Visual Culture
Get PDFRecent studies have fruitfully examined the intersection between early modern science and visual culture by elucidating the functions of images in shaping and disseminating scientific knowledge. Given its rich archival sources, it is possible to extend this line of research in the case of the Royal Society to an examination of attitudes towards images as artefacts –manufactured objects worth commissioning, collecting and studying. Drawing on existing scholarship and material from the Royal Society Archives, I discuss Fellows’ interests in prints, drawings, varnishes, colorants, images made out of unusual materials, and methods of identifying the painter from a painting. Knowledge of production processes of images was important to members of the Royal Society, not only as connoisseurs and collectors, but also as those interested in a Baconian mastery of material processes, including a “history of trades”. Their antiquarian interests led to discussion of painters’ styles, and they gradually developed a visual memorial to an institution through portraits and other visual records.AH/M001938/1 (AHRC
Philosophia prima como repraesentatio na filosofia natural de Hobbes: exame de fundamentos metafísico-cognitivos como complementos teóricos de seu materialismo mecanicista
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A journey to London in the year 1698 after the ingenuous method of that made by Dr. Martin Lyster to Paris in the same year, &c. / written originally in French by Monsieur Sorbiere and newly translated into English.
Full text linkSculptura, or, The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works : to which is annexed a new manner of engraving, or mezzo tinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the authour of this treatise.
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«Le plus éloquent philosophe des derniers temps». Les stratégies d'auteur de René Descartes
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