Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe

Based on new research, a distinguished international team studies the forms in which scientific knowledge was transmitted in the late medieval and early modern period, the ways they interacted, and the people to whom the knowledge was directed. Among the famous authors whose work is examined
here are Fuchs, Vesalius, Tycho Brahe, and Descartes.


Author: Sachiko Kusukawa
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780199288786

About the Author

Ian Maclean is a graduate of Oxford, where he also did his doctorate; he was for twenty-four years a Fellow and Praelector in French at Queen's College Oxford, and Lecturer then Reader in Modern Languages in the University of Oxford. He became a titular professor in Renaissance Studies in the
University, before moving to All Souls as a Senior Research Fellow in History in 1996. He has held visiting fellowships in Australia, USA, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Germany. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Chevalier des arts et des
lettres (France), and a member of the Academia Europaea.

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