TY - BOOK AU - Doherty,Meghan TI - Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society T2 - Scientiae Studies SN - 9789463721066 AV - NX543 .D64 2022 U1 - 748.6/2094209032 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Arts, English KW - 17th century KW - Engraving, English KW - Art and Material Culture KW - Early Modern Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - ART / Techniques / Drawing KW - bisacsh KW - Engraving, Royal Society of London, Scientific Illustration, Robert Hooke, William Faithorne N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. “Innocent Witch-craft of Lights”: Developing Visual Judgment through Printed Books --; 2. “A New Visible World”: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for the Microscopic --; 3. “Nearly Resembling the Live Birds”: Collecting and Collating for the Reformation of Natural History --; 4. “These Rude Collections”: Accumulating Observations and Experiments --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The book traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and connoisseurship; the role of a network in the production of knowledge; balancing readers’ expectations with representational conventions; and the effects of acts of collecting on the creation and circulation of knowledge. On the one hand, this study uncovers that approaches to knowledge production were different in the seventeenth century, as compared with in the twenty-first century. On the other, it reveals how the early modern struggle to sort through an overwhelming quantity of visual information - brought on by major changes in image production and circulation - resonates with our own UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554270?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048554270 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048554270/original ER -