Early modern print media and the art of observation : training the literate eye / Stephanie A. Leitch, Florida State University.
"Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy...
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Learning to look with books for the literate eye
- Don't forget your Apian : a DIY guideto the cosmos
- Facial profiling : physiognomy and the art of inspection
- Visualized data and searchable science : the Liber quodlibetarius (c. 1524)
- Vexed viewing : anamorphosis and the visual argumentation of labored looking
- Conclusion : observational thinking.