Seeing Is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
As Leonhart Fuchs noted in the introduction to his great herbal of 1542, pictures "can communicate information much more clearly than the words of even the most eloquent men." Scientific and medical illustration can even allow a reader to "see" information that cannot actually be seen.Seeing Is Believing presents a selection of nearly forty scientific and medical illustrations drawn primarily from the collections in The New York Public Library's four research centers, augmented by materials from The New York Academy of Medicine and from a private collector. These fascinating images -- some in full color -- open a window on the primarily Western science of earlier centuries and on the artistry and skill that gave visual expression to those ideas. The book also includes a brief description of the principal illustration processes, a list of suggested reading, and a complete checklist of the exhibition that this publication complements.
Includes 32 black and white illustrations and 9 color plates.
About the Author
Jennifer Lee is the Librarian for Public Services & Programs at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Prior to that she served in curatorial positions in the Rare Books Division of The New York Public Library and at the John Hay Library at Brown University.
Miriam Mandelbaum is currently the curator of the Archibald Mallock Rare Book Room of The New York Academy of Medicine and prior to that served as a librarian in the Rare Books Division of The New York Public Library. Lee and Mandelbaum were the co-curators of a major exhibition about scientific and medical illustration mounted at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library in the Fall 1999, for which this book was a companion volume.
Seeing Is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration,Jennifer B. Lee,Miriam Mandelbaum,New York Public Library,0871044498,Exhibitions,General,Medical illustration,New York Public Library,Science,Science/Mathematics,Scientific illustration
Discount Books:
Recommended Books