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Wrestling with nature
When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century.
Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nature themselves, in various cultures and periods of history, have understood and represented their work. The aim of each chapter is to explain the content, goals, methods, practices, and institutions associated with the investigation of nature and to articulate the strengths, limitations, and boundaries of these efforts from the perspective of the researchers themselves. With contributions from experts representing different historical periods and different disciplinary specializations, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the history of science and on what it meant, in other times and places, to wrestle with nature.
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The Geometrical Diagrams in Regiomontanus's Edition of His Own Disputationes (c. 1475): Background, Production, and Diffusion
Regiomontanus 's emulation and adaptation of the elegant scribal practices in the fifteenth-century manuscripts shaped the way later printed astronomical books looked and left a lasting imprint on the typography of mathematical works.4 Well into the sixteenth century, German and Italian printers working in Venice in particular imitated his innovative results and disseminated copies of his illustrations in their own editions. To appreciate the unusual apotheosis of one of them, one must lift the eyes toward the ceiling frieze of the Casa Pellizzari in Giorgione's hometown of Castelfranco Veneto, where he painted a fresco cycle devoted to the liberal and mechanical arts.56 To signify astronomy, Giorgione represented planetary models, eclipses, and geometrical figures rooted in the diagrams of Regiomontanus's editions.
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