Knowing Objects
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2020
Book
360 pages
978-0-429-43878-3 (ISBN)
Description
Knowing Objects explores how objects and their vocabularies mediated between different cultures of knowledge in the Low Countries, which was a key trading zone due to its connections with transnational networks such as the Spanish Empire, France, China and Japan. This book answers the questions: what was knowledge in the early modern period, and how did objects of art and language work to convey its concept? The reconstruction of knowledge object vocabularies makes it possible to rephrase the complex issue of historical epistemology. This multifaceted approach enables students and researchers to understand an object's cultural biography: conception, production, consumption, and reception.
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Series
Language
English
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
120 s/w Abbildungen
120 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-429-43878-3 (9780429438783)
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Content
Introduction (Thijs Weststeijn, Utrecht University)
1. Ann-Sophie Lehmann (University of Groningen)
Material Dialogues. How Knowledge Travels Between Things and People
2. Koenraad Jonckheere (Ghent University)
Art Theory and Image Theory in the Wake of Iconoclasm
3. Tine Luk Meganck (Royal Museums of Fine of Belgium, Brussels)
Knowing Objects, Forging New Objects: Luxury Trade, Miniature Painting, and Print Design in the Vezeleer-Hoefnagel Antwerp Merchant Family
4. Marisa Anne Bass (Yale University)
Knowledge on the Move: The Making of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum
5. Christine Göttler (University of Bern)
Mount PotosĂ in Antwerp: The Imagery of Labor and Wealth in Peter Paul Rubens's Arch of the Mint (1635)
6. Jaya Remond (Bard College Berlin/Max Planck Insitute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Early Modern Visual Translations: Creating Artistic Knowledge in a Multilingual Europe
7. Els Stronks (Utrecht University)
Linguistic Treatises as Inquisitive Objects
8. Huib Zuidervaart (Huygens Institute/Royal Academy of Sciences)
The Emergence of the Profession of 'Philosophical Instrument Maker' in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
9. Han Qi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
A Jesuit Mathematician at the Imperial Court: Antoine Thomas (1644-1709) and His Scientific Activities during the Kangxi Reign
10. Sietske Fransen (University of Cambridge)
Describing the Previously Unseen: Three Dutch Microscopists and their Correspondence with the Royal Society
11. Thijs Weststeijn (Utrecht University)
The Chinese Challenge: East Asia in Nicolaas Witsen's Collection
12. Shih Ching-fei (National Taiwan University)
Three Wondrous Objects that Came Across the Sea to China in the Late Seventeenth Century
1. Ann-Sophie Lehmann (University of Groningen)
Material Dialogues. How Knowledge Travels Between Things and People
2. Koenraad Jonckheere (Ghent University)
Art Theory and Image Theory in the Wake of Iconoclasm
3. Tine Luk Meganck (Royal Museums of Fine of Belgium, Brussels)
Knowing Objects, Forging New Objects: Luxury Trade, Miniature Painting, and Print Design in the Vezeleer-Hoefnagel Antwerp Merchant Family
4. Marisa Anne Bass (Yale University)
Knowledge on the Move: The Making of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum
5. Christine Göttler (University of Bern)
Mount PotosĂ in Antwerp: The Imagery of Labor and Wealth in Peter Paul Rubens's Arch of the Mint (1635)
6. Jaya Remond (Bard College Berlin/Max Planck Insitute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Early Modern Visual Translations: Creating Artistic Knowledge in a Multilingual Europe
7. Els Stronks (Utrecht University)
Linguistic Treatises as Inquisitive Objects
8. Huib Zuidervaart (Huygens Institute/Royal Academy of Sciences)
The Emergence of the Profession of 'Philosophical Instrument Maker' in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
9. Han Qi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
A Jesuit Mathematician at the Imperial Court: Antoine Thomas (1644-1709) and His Scientific Activities during the Kangxi Reign
10. Sietske Fransen (University of Cambridge)
Describing the Previously Unseen: Three Dutch Microscopists and their Correspondence with the Royal Society
11. Thijs Weststeijn (Utrecht University)
The Chinese Challenge: East Asia in Nicolaas Witsen's Collection
12. Shih Ching-fei (National Taiwan University)
Three Wondrous Objects that Came Across the Sea to China in the Late Seventeenth Century