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Picturing the Book of Nature

Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

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Picturing the Book of Nature

Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner’s unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illustrations were integral to the emergence of a new type of argument during this period—a visual argument for the scientific study of nature. To set the stage, Kusukawa begins with a survey of the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. It was during the first half of the sixteenth century that learned authors began using images in their research and writing, but because the technology was so new, there was a great deal of variety of thought—and often disagreement—about exactly what images could do: how they should be used, what degree of authority should be attributed to them, which graphic elements were bearers of that authority, and what sorts of truths images could and did encode. Kusukawa investigates the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesalius in light of these debates, scrutinizing the scientists’ treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works. What results is a fascinating and original study of the visual dimension of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century.

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Picturing the Book of Nature

Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

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Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

The Case of Philip Melanchthon

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

The Case of Philip Melanchthon

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a natural philosophy in which Melanchthon wished to demonstrate God's Providential design in the physical world. Rather than dichotomizing or synthesizing the two distinct areas of 'science' and 'religion', Kusukawa advocates the need to look at 'Natural philosophy' as a discipline quite different from either 'modern science' or 'religion': a contextual assessment of the implication of the Lutheran Reformation on university education, particularly on natural philosophy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521473470

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Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

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Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the disciplines taught at university to achieve widespread dissemination. This distinguishes it from printed editions of individual texts of Aristotle and other authorities. It is presented as a dialogue between master and pupil, covering the seven liberal arts, natural philosophy and moral philosophy, and with illustrations throughout. It has received remarkably little attention in its own right as a work of education which helped shape the world view of sixteenth-century educated men. Its author was a Carthusian monk. This volume presents an edited translation and an extensive introduction, of the four books which deal with natural philosophy - the predecessor of modern science. These books clearly show the extent to which for Reisch the study of nature was still primarily undertaken for Christian ends. Not only was nature studied as God's creation, but the study of the soul (a central part of natural philosophy pursued on Aristotelian lines) and its fate was here completely integrated with the salvation or damnation of the individual Christian, as taught in the Bible and by the church fathers, especially Augustine. Natural philosophy for Reisch was a discipline which was as concerned with God and the Bible as it was with Nature and Aristotle.

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Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Conversations with Aristotle

By: Constance Blackwell,Sachiko Kusukawa

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Conversations with Aristotle

By: Constance Blackwell,Sachiko Kusukawa

This volume offers an important re-evaluation of early modern philosophy. It takes issue with the received notion of a ’revolution’ in philosophical thought in the 17th-century, making the case for treating the 16th and 17th centuries together. Taking up Charles Schmitt’s formulation of the many ’Aristotelianisms’ of the period, the papers bring out the variety and richness of the approaches to Aristotle, rather than treating his as a homogeneous system of thought. Based on much new research, they provide case studies of how philosophers used, developed, and reacted to the framework of Aristotelian logic, categories and distinctions, and demonstrate that Aristotelianism possessed both the flexibility and the dynamism to exert a continuing impact - even among such noted ’anti-Aristotelians’ as Descartes and Hobbes. This constant engagement can indeed be termed ’conversations with Aristotle’.

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1351911384

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Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy and the World of Books

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

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Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy and the World of Books

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius—the father of modern anatomy—as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture. In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we often think of dissection as destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped him understand how to construct the human body. In this book, Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius’s publication emerged from the interplay of Renaissance art, printing technology, and classical tradition. She challenges the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy through a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create a big and beautiful book that propelled him into imperial circles and secured his enduring fame.

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Reaktion Books

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1789148774

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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

The Case of Philip Melanchthon

By: Sachiko Kusukawa

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The Case of Philip Melanchthon

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Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

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Book's by Sachiko Kusukawa

Picturing the Book of Nature

Picturing the Book of Nature

Picturing the Book of Nature

Picturing the Book of Nature

The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius

The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

The Transformation of Natural Philosophy

Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

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