Author: Swann GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Atlases & Maps Including Important Facsimile Atlases (lots 1-90), Books with Plates; Natural History, Americana, Travel & Topography (lots 91-148), Miscellaneous Graphics; Botanical, Costume, Plates from Didertot, Cartoons, Architecture, Watercolors, Portraits, Etc (lots 149-284).
Author: Swann GalleriesAtlases & Maps Including Important Facsimile Atlases (lots 1-90)
Author: Swann GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Maps and Atlases (lots 1-155); Books with Plates; Natural History, Topography, Advertising, Costume, Art, Etc. (lots 156-225); Miscellaneous Graphics; Watercolors and Drawings, Equestrian, Natural History, Color Plates, Costume, Art, Architecture, Vues D'opique, Etc. (lots 226-311)
Author: Swann GalleriesAtlases (lots 1-48), Maps (lots 48A-145), Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology (lots 146-244)
Author: Swann GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Maps and Atlases (lots 1-137); Prints and Graphics, Watercolors and Drawings, Natural History, Currier & Ives, Portraits, Views, Costumes, Etc. (lots 138-283); Books with Plates and Engravings; Illustrated Books, Travel and Topography, Natural History, Etc., , Etc. (lots 284-425).
Author: Swann GalleriesAtlases (lots 1-48), Maps (lots 48A-145), Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology (lots 146-244), Miscellaneous Graphics; European & Islamic Manuscript Leaves, Architecture, Costume, Topography, Cartoons, Caricatures, Comics, Books with Plates and Engravings
Author: Maps and Atlases (lots 1-127); Books with Plates (lots 128-238); Natural History, Historica, Costume; Decorative Graphics (lots 239-327); Costume, Natural History, Views, Architecture
Author: Swann GalleriesArt in History/History in Art
Author: David FreedbergPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
The Princess & the Patriot
Author: Sue Ann PrincePublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
The Structures of Practical Knowledge
Author: Matteo VallerianiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319456717
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The Structures of Practical Knowledge investigates the nature of practical knowledge – why, how, when and by whom it is codified, and once codified, how this knowledge is structured. The inquiry unfolds in a series of fifteen case studies, which range in focus from early modern Italy to eighteenth century China. At the heart of each study is a shared definition of practical knowledge, that is, knowledge needed to obtain a certain outcome, whether that be an artistic or mechanical artifact, a healing practice, or a mathematical result. While the content of practical knowledge is widely variable, this study shows that all practical knowledge is formally equivalent in following a defined workflow, as reflected in a construction procedure, a recipe, or an algorithm. As explored in the volume’s fifteen contributions, there are three levels at which structures of practical knowledge may be understood and examined. At the most immediate level, there are the individual workflows that encompasses practical knowledge itself. Probing further, it is possible to examine the structure of practical knowledge as it is externalized and codified in texts, drawings, and artifacts such as models. Finally, practical knowledge is also related to social structures, which fundamentally determine its dissemination and evolution into new knowledge structures. The social structures of professionals and institutions represent the critical means by which practical knowledge takes form. These actors are the agents of codification, and by means of selection, appropriation, investment, and knowledge development, they determine the formation of new structures of practical knowledge. On a more abstract level, the creation of new knowledge structures is understood as constituting the basis for the further development of scientific knowledge. Rich in subject matter and incisive in the theory it lays out, this volume represents an important contribution to the history of science and epistemology. Individually, the fifteen case studies – encompassing the history of architecture, mining, brewing, glass production, printing, ballistics, mechanics, cartography, cosmology and astronomy – are replete with original research, and offer new insights into the history of science. Taken together, the contributions remodel historical epistemology as a whole, elucidating the underlining knowledge structures that transcend disciplinary boundaries, and that unite practitioners across time and space.