Book contents
- Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
- Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Part I Coaching the Eyewitness
- Part II Collecting and Cognitive Challenges
- Four Visualized Data and Searchable Science
- Five Vexed Viewing
- Six Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Four - Visualized Data and Searchable Science
The Liber Quodlibetarius (c. 1524)
from Part II - Collecting and Cognitive Challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2024
- Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
- Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Part I Coaching the Eyewitness
- Part II Collecting and Cognitive Challenges
- Four Visualized Data and Searchable Science
- Five Vexed Viewing
- Six Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
The compiler of the manuscript Liber Quodlibetarius lifted its content from circulating publications on cosmography and physiognomy and other how-to books. This manuscript reflects the shift in balance of deliverable knowledge away from text and toward visual learning by way of sovereign images.
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- Early Modern Print Media and the Art of ObservationTraining the Literate Eye, pp. 191 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024