Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Markey, Lia
2. Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
3. Newberry Library, host institution.
4. Northwestern University Press, publisher.

Description

1. ix, 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 x 31 cm

Summary

1. "This book is the first full-length study of Johannes Stradanus's renowned print series Nova Reperta, yielding insights into cross-cultural collaboration and technological change during the Renaissance"--

Subject

1. Exhibition catalogs
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc
3. Scientific discoveries in art
4. Inventions in art
5. Engraving, Renaissance
6. Newberry Library
7. Newberry Library Exhibitions
8. Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605 > Criticism and interpretation
9. Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605 > Nova reperta

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / Daniel Greene -- Acknowledgments -- Essays -- Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta / Lia Markey -- Philips Galle's Nova Reperta: A Case Study in Print Prices and Distribution / Karen L. Bowen -- Stradanus's Print Shop and the Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp / Dirk Imhof -- Diligent Labor in Stradanus's Engraving Shop / Madeleine C. Viljoen -- Mathematical Instruments in the Nova Reperta / James Clifton -- Invented Processes: Stradanus's Distillatio and Lapis polaris magnes / Olivia Dill -- A New World Disease and Therapy: Stradanus's Guaiacum Engraving / Alessandra Foscati and Lia Markey -- The Global Reception of Stradanus and the Political Use of the Nova Reperta / Dániel Margócsy -- Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- Conversations. -- Navigation / Jim Akerman, Pedro Raposo, and J. B. Shank -- Warfare / David Cressy, Jennifer Nelson, and Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- Printing / Jill Gage and Martin Antonetti -- Transformation / Rebecca Zorach, Luca Molà, and Matthew James Crawford -- Mechanisms / Deborah Howard, Jessica Keating, and Niall Atkinson -- Visuality / Sven Dupré, Claudia Swan, and Christine Göttler -- Catalogue of Related Works in the Newberry Library Collections / Jim Akerman, Ikumi Crocoll, Olivia Dill, Caitlin DiMartino, Andrew Epps, Christopher Fletcher, Jill Gage, Christine Göttler, Marisa Guo, Elisa Jones, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Megan Kelly, Stephanie Lee, Analú Lopez, Isabella Magni, Lia Markey, Claire Ptaschinski, Risa Puleo, Sandra Racek, McKenzie Stupica, John Sullivan, Alexandra Thomas, and Debora Wood.

Call number

1. JQG 21-392

Note

1. "This book is funded in part by the Newbery Library, accompanying an exhibition on view at the Newberry from April 18 to July 3, 2020."--Title page verso. Exhibition postponed until the fall of 2020 due to public health concerns over the outbreak of COVID-19.
2. Essays and conversations from a symposium held May 2019 at the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index.

Title

1. Renaissance invention : Stradanus's Nova Reperta / edited by Lia Markey.

Publisher

1. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2020]

Copyright date

1. ©2020

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index.

Added author

1. Markey, Lia, editor.
2. Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605. Nova reperta.
3. Newberry Library, host institution.
4. Northwestern University Press, publisher.

LCCN

1. 2019052891

ISBN

1. 9780810142022 paperback
2. 0810142023 paperback

Research call number

1. JQG 21-392