1. The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Indigenizing visualized knowledge: translating Western science illustrations in China, 1870–1910

“…However, this viewpoint is refuted by Michael S. Mahoney in the same volume of essays. Bert S. Hall (1996) provides a detailed review of the Edgerton-Mahoney debate. 8.…”

Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science*

“…The prevailing style of European botanical illustration of the time insisted on naturalistic verisimilitude, not on realism, since illustrations did not reproduce specimens exactly, but offered an illusion of the lifelike (Hall 1996;Parshall 1993;Swan 1995). One stylistic result of this aim was a preference for volume over flatness.…”

Neither good nor useful: looking ad vivum in children's assessments of fat and healthy bodies

“…13 An edited translation with additions was made into English by Edward Topsell in 1658, titled The history of four-footed beasts and serpents: describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work, London: Printed by E. Cotes for G. Sawbridge, T. Williams, and T. Johnson. 14 It is the case that illustrations were made of interior of humans and creatures prior to the eighteenth century, however these differ in many ways from latter scientific drawings, including style, naturalism and representation of object and subject (Hall, 1996). 15 My thanks to the anonymous reviewer who pointed to the connections with lay epidemiology.…”