The Renaissance Development of the Scientific Illustration - Winthrop
The Renaissance Development of the Scientific Illustration - Winthrop
The Renaissance Development of the Scientific Illustration - Winthrop
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SAMUEL Y. EDGERTON, JR.Woodcut print from Georg Bauer Agricola, De re rnetaaicu, Basel, 1556. ChapisRare Bc~ok Library, Williams College, Williamstown, MS~.lowed <strong>the</strong> lead <strong>of</strong> Andreas Vesalius's De hurnani corporis fabrica after 154hVesaliusss illustrator, an artist very close to Titian if not Titian himself, estdlisheda mode <strong>of</strong> anatomical representation which has never been surpusedei<strong>the</strong>r aes<strong>the</strong>tic or informational quality.?he example from yet ano<strong>the</strong>r masterpiece <strong>of</strong> sixteenth-centuv ~im*illustration, Agostino Ramelli's Le diverse et art$ciose macbine <strong>of</strong> 1588,"tins a copper engraving <strong>of</strong> a windlass for raising water from a well. *operator turns a vemcal crank which <strong>the</strong>n turns a lantern gear beneah cbrground but exposed in a 'cutaway view.' This gear, lettered B, rotates mob*
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