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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Art and science

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Medieval Art

Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts by Peter Murray Jones
Call Number: R836 .J66 1998
Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History 1200-1500 by Jean A. Givens; Karen M. Reeds; Alain Touwaide
Call Number: R141 .V57 2006
Visuelle Weltaneignung: astronomische und kosmologische Diagramme in Handschriften des Mittelalters by Kathrin Müller
Call Number: ND2920 .M85 2008
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Medieval Medical Miniatures by Peter M. Jones
Call Number: N8223 .J6 1985
Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art by Jean A. Givens
Call Number: N6310 .G55 2005
ISBN: 0521830311
Maps of Medieval Thought by Naomi Reed Kline
Call Number: G89.5 .K54 2003
"Ruminations on Edible Icons: Originals and Copies in the Art of Byzatium" by Gary Vikan
Call Number: N386.U5 S78 v.20
in Retaining the original : multiple originals, copies, and reproductions. edited by Kathleen Preciado

Renaissance Art

Painting the Heavens: art and science in the age of Galileo by Eileen Reeves
Call Number: ND1460.A74 R44 1997
Galileo's Muse by Mark Austin Peterson
Call Number: QB36.G2 P48 2011
The Body of the Artisan: art and experience in the scientific revolution by Pamela H. Smith
Call Number: N72.S3 S65 2004
Galilei der Künstler : der Mond, die Sonne, die Hand by Horst Bredekamp
Call Number: QB36.G2 B636 2009
Picturing the Scientific Revolution by Volker Remmert
Call Number: Q222 .R4513 2011
Picturing Knowledge: historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science by Brian S. Baigrie (Editor)
Call Number: Q222 .P53 1996
Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy by Domenico Laurenza
Call Number: N6915 .L29 2012
The Mastery of Nature: aspects of art, science, and humanism in the Renaissance by Thomas D. Kaufmann
Science and the Arts in the Renaissance by John Shirley (Editor); F. David Hoeniger (Editor)
Call Number: NX180.S3 S35 1985
Based an papers presented at a symposium held at the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 1978, Co-sponsored the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology.
The Arts of 17th-Century Science by Diane Watt; Claire Jowitt
Call Number: PR438.S37 A76 2002

Exhibition Catalogs

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman (Editor)
Call Number: NE625 .P745 2011
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.
Rome Reborn by Anthony Grafton (Editor)
Call Number: CB361 .R66 1993
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6-Apr. 30, 1993.

Located in Pius Oversize and in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
From Art to Science: seventy-two objects illustrating the nature of discovery by Cyril Stanley Smith
Call Number: Q125 .S683
Based on an exhibition held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology October through December 1978.
Two by Two: twenty-two pairs of maps from the Newberry Library illustrating 500 years of Western cartographic history by James R. Akerman; Robert W. Karrow; David Buisseret
Call Number: GA190 .A327 1993
The discovery of the world : maps of the earth and the cosmos from the David M. Stewart Collection.
Call Number: GA190 .D38 1985