Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 “Innocent Witch-craft of Lights”: Developing Visual Judgment through Printed Books
- 2 “A New Visible World”: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for the Microscopic
- 3 “Nearly Resembling the Live Birds”: Collecting and Collating for the Reformation of Natural History
- 4 “These Rude Collections”: Accumulating Observations and Experiments
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 “Innocent Witch-craft of Lights”: Developing Visual Judgment through Printed Books
- 2 “A New Visible World”: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for the Microscopic
- 3 “Nearly Resembling the Live Birds”: Collecting and Collating for the Reformation of Natural History
- 4 “These Rude Collections”: Accumulating Observations and Experiments
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern EnglandVisual Communication and the Royal Society, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022