Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
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Observing Nature
Lorraine Daston
Description: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
~The acquisition of knowledge of the natural world in the early modern period increasingly depended on observation. Previous generations relied on ancient sources’ accounts of astronomy, geography, natural history, and anatomy—some of which were contradicted by experience and examination. A new insistence on direct observation also pervaded artistic...
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Lorraine Daston
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.125-161
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16363
Chapter subject tags:Europe--Intellectual life--16th centuryHumanismArt and natural history--Europe--History--16th centuryPrints, European--16th centuryPrints, RenaissanceArt and science--Europe--History--16th centuryAstronomy in artBotanical illustration, RenaissanceMedicine and art--Europe--History--16th century