The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment PDF
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The Art of Philosophy Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM ii Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM The Art of Philosophy visual thinking in europe from the late renaissance to the early enlightenment Susanna Berger Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM Copyright © 2017 by Princeton Classification: LCC BH39 .B47 University Press 2017 | DDC 190—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc Published by Princeton University .gov/2016013422 Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, This publication is made possible Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR in part from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, press.princeton.edu Department of Art and Archae- Jacket illustrations: (front) ology, Princeton University Rembrandt, A Scholar in His Designed by Leslie Fitch Study (“Faust”), c. 1652. Etching, drypoint, and burin, printed on This book has been composed in paper, 8.3 × 6.3 in. (21 × 16 cm). Adobe Minion Pro and Scala Sans BM, London. © The Trustees of Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ the British Museum; (back) Dürer and Pirckheimer, detail showing Printed in China “Ratio,” in the Triumphal Chariot, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 c. 1518. Woodcut printed on paper. Albertina, Vienna [DG1934/577] All Rights Reserved Frontispiece: Detail of Chéron and Gaultier, Typus, 1622. Engraving on paper, 29.1 × 18.5 in. (74 × 47 cm). Rare Book Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Berger, Susanna, 1984- author. Title: The art of philosophy : visual thinking in Europe from the late Renaissance to the early enlightenment / Susanna Berger. Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016013422 | isbn 9780691172279 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Art and Philosophy—Europe. | Aesthetics, Modern—17th century. | Aesthetics, Modern—18th century. | Visual communication in art—Europe—History. | Art, Renaissance. | Art, Modern—18th century. Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM For my parents, with love Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 1 Apin’s Cabinet of Printed Curiosities 41 2 Thinking through Plural Images of Logic 75 3 The Visible Order of Student Lecture Notebooks 115 4 Visual Thinking in Logic Notebooks and Alba amicorum 147 5 The Generation of Art as the Generation of Philosophy 173 Appendix 1 Catalogue of Surviving Impressions of Philosophical Plural Images 211 Appendix 2 Transcriptions of the Texts Inscribed onto Philosophical Plural Images 217 Notes 273 Bibliography 293 Index 303 Illustration Credits 316 Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM Without an image thinking is impossible. — Aristotle, On Memory Unauthenticated Download Date | 7/30/17 11:20 PM
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