Scientific Illustration

Janice L. Neri

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Abstract

The development of scientific illustration in early modern Europe paralleled a rising interest in studying, collecting, and classifying the natural world. These practices gave rise to new methods of documenting and displaying nature and its products. Although early modern European artists and naturalists did not deliberately set out principles or rules for creating scientific images, a common set of practices emerged during the period that formed the foundation of scientific illustration into the modern period.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationEurope 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
StatePublished - 2004

Keywords

  • Andreas Vesalius
  • Robert Hooke
  • Sibylla Merian
  • anatomy and physiology
  • museums
  • natural history

EGS Disciplines

  • Illustration
  • Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
  • Science and Technology Studies

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