Reading Between the Lines: Ornament Prints as Technical Literature.
This study situates 16th-century ornament prints within the contexts of print culture, entrepreneurial publishing, textual and visual rhetorics, and the practical knowledge encoded in technical texts. It suggests that it is worth taking seriously the explicit claims on the title pages to ornament-pr...
| Publicado en: | Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 539 - 579 |
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Brepols Publishers
2024
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