Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions

This conference brings together almost five years of research from the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions.” The Research Group has compared different scientific disciplines of the late medieval and early modern periods, from anatomy to the study of magnetism. The Group has specifically worked on the role and function of abstract images and diagrams as well as on the role and function of various media, such as drawing, print, and painting in knowledge production. This conference will be the first time that all past and present scholars of the research group come together in conversation on these topics and the state of their research.

SPEAKERS

Flavia Benfante (University of Sevilla), TBC
Marvin Bolt (BHMPI) “The visual culture of the invention of achromatic lenses in manuscript, print, experience, and practice”
Giosuè Fabiano, M.A. (Courtauld Institute, London) “The demostazione by Giovanni Gherardi da Prato: Optics, Diagrams and Architectural Experience in Late Medieval Florence (c.1425)”
Alicia Hughes (British Museum) “In imitation of drawing: Graphic techniques and intaglio methods in anatomical image-making practices in the eighteenth-century”
Matthijs Jonker (Utrecht University) “Tesoro Deluxe: The Copper Engravings for the Accademia dei Lincei’s Natural History of Mexico”
Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute & University of Leiden) “Inside out ↔ outside in Reinier de Graaf and Johannes Swammerdam on dissecting and drawing the female reproductive system”
Odile Lehnen, M.A. (BHMPI/Durham University) “Celestial Machines: Caroline Herschel, Astronomical Notebooks and the Material Culture of Predigital Communication Systems”
Pamela MacKenzie (University of Cambridge) “Late Seventeenth Century Microscopy and the Printed Image”
Jennifer Marine, M.A. (BHMPI/University of Virginia) “Seeing Sound in Victorian Britain”
Ariella Minden, M.A. (BHMPI) “The Appreciation of Print as Media in Early Modern Italy”
Aleksander M. Musiał, M.A. (Princeton) “Rosa Schizzante: intimacy and cleanliness inside Christina of Sweden’s bathing apartment in Palazzo Riario”
Alejandro Nodarse, M.A. (Harvard) “Drawing Anteriority”
Ellen Pater, M.A. (Huygens Institute) “The steps in between: Designing images of insect anatomy in Johannes Swammerdam’s ‘Icones Operis Bibliae Naturae”
Jaya Remond (Ghent University “Printing Flora: Anthophilic Discourses and Representations in Northern Europe c. 1560-1620”
Daniel Sáenz (BHMPI/Columbia University) “From a sort of polygraph to written things: Writing, pedagogy, and somatic inscriptions in the early modern transatlantic world”
Christoph Sander (Deutsches Historisches Institute Rom) “What A Diagram Is, Statistically”
Oscar Seip (University of Manchester) “From Manuscripts to Metadata: Methods of Information Management in Contemporary and Early Modern Europe”
Elisa Spataro (Sapienza University) “Visualizing Anatomy and Learning to Draw the Human Body in a Late Sixteenth-Century Jesuit Textbook for Artists”
Leendert van der Miesen (BHMPI) “Sound Specimens: Music Notation and Transcription in Natural History”
Larissa van Vianen, M.A. (Huygens Institute) “The astonishing design of the goatmoth caterpillar: the importance of taste in eighteenth-century natural historical publications”

RESPONDENTS

Elena Canadelli (Padova University)
Sven Dupré (Utrecht University & University of Amsterdam),
Robert Felfe (Graz University),
Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens Institute),
Matthieu Husson (SYRTE L’Observatoire de Paris),
Stephanie Leitch (Florida State University),
Stephanie Porras (Tulane University),
Katherine Reinhart (Binghamton University),
Irene van Renswoude (Huygens Institute)

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Scientific Organization: Sietske Fransen