The Renaissance Development of the Scientific Illustration - Winthrop

Jerome Wierx, Nativity, engraving from Jerome Nadal, Evmgelicae bistoricae imaginesex ordine Evangeliorum, Antwerp, 1593. Chapin Rare Book Library, WilliamsCollege, Williamstown, Mass.One especially interesting application of this new Renaissance didactic,scientific vocabulary is noteworthy because the scene shown here has nothingto do with science but with teaching the Roman Catholic religion. This engravingis one of 150 published in 1593 with a text by a Spanish Jesuit namedHieronymus Nadal. His publisher, the famous Christophe Plantin of Ant-!missionariesmissionariesthe iaith justing were too.In the Ch.vinely foretoshepherds b)had been coisented in atimes. ThisRenaissancepend time u!sense of spaclike scientificon the same Ithe right of tlover the shepwhose openanother littleright, there isanother littleAll these detorder in the tIt is a rele.taken to Chirboth of the ilartists duringmissionaries :library for tlproselytizingverts to tranwoodcut prirwindlass punRosary p;bli:Tn Shno, priwas a scholarli's in the Jeslearned Jesuitvarious 'theawith a digesttions of WonOne immecartists =onen1types for the