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Author:   Lia Markey ,  David Cressy ,  Pedro Raposo ,  J.B. Shank
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 30.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   1.100kg
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9780810142022

ISBN 10:   0810142023
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   30 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface Essays Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta Lia Markey 1.Philips Galle's Nova Reperta: A Case Study in Print Prices and Distribution Karen L. Bowen 2. Stradanus's Print Shop and the Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-century Antwerp Dirk Imhof 3. Diligent Labor in Stradanus's Engraving Shop Madeleine C. Viljoen 4. Mathematical Instruments in the Nova Reperta James Clifton 5. Invented Processes and Hands-On Knowledge: Stradanus's Distillation and Magnetic Compass   Olivia Dill 6. A New World Disease and Therapy: Stradano's Guaiacum Engraving Alessandra Foscati and Lia Markey 7.The Global Reception of Stradanus and the Political Uses of the Nova Reperta DÁniel MargÓcsy 8. Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Pamela H. Smith Conversations Navigation Jim Akerman, Pedro Raposo, JB Shank Warfare David Cressy, Jennifer Nelson, Suzanne Karr Schmidt Printing Jill Gage, Martin Antonetti Transformation Rebecca Zorach, Luca MolÀ, Matthew James Crawford Machines Jessica Keating, Deborah Howard, Niall Atkinson Visuality Christine GÖttler, Claudia Swan, Sven DuprÉ Catalogue 58 entries on materials from the Newberry's collection Bibliography Index

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Lia Markey has assembled an excellent team of scholars to guide us through a close, careful, and well contextualized reading of Johannes Stradanus's series of prints from the late 1580s known as the Nova Reperta, some of the most evocative and emblematic images of the early modern era. --Paula Findlen, author of Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World Lia Markey has assembled a remarkable roster of contributors to tease meaning from one of early modern Europe's most noteworthy print series. Renaissance Invention leaves no doubt that Stradanus's Nova Reperta was a pictorial game-changer that continues to resonate across disciplines. In our present age, this exploration of replicative and other technologies shows us why history is important. --Susan Dackerman, author of Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Certainly, these images, as Markey, Greene, and the other catalog contributors emphasize, address what we have come to call 'innovation' and 'globalization.' Therein also lies their evil shadow, lurking just off the page, or sometimes right on it . . . in Stradanus's images we glimpse a kind of engineering with imperial rather than cosmological ambitions. We have premonitions of innovation and globalization, those rough beasts slouching toward modernity. --Jessica Riskin, New York Review of Books Markey and her colleagues must be congratulated for a work of lasting scholarship on a neglected but significant series of prints that represents the major changes wrought during the early modern epoch. --Larry Silver, The Burlington Magazine

Lia Markey has assembled an excellent team of scholars to guide us through a close, careful, and well contextualized reading of Johannes Stradanus's series of prints from the late 1580s known as the Nova Reperta, some of the most evocative and emblematic images of the early modern era. - Paula Findlen, author of Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World

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Lia Markey is the director of the Center of Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library.

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