Description
Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of the
Nova Reperta (New Discoveries), a renowned series of prints designed by Johannes Stradanus during the late 1580s in Florence. The book seeks to understand why certain inventions or novelties were represented in the series and how that presentation reflected their adoption in the sixteenth century.
Trade ReviewLia 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 WorldTable 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
