Dedication

pp 5-6

Table of Contents

pp 7-8

1 - Prologue: For a Metaphorology of Engraving: From Epistemic Images to an Imaged Epistemology

pp 9-24

2 - Introduction: Pittura filosofica: Etching Galileo’s Sunspots and the Discursive Field of Early Modern Epistemic Images

pp 25-56

Part 1 - Approaches to Print Matrices

pp 57-58

3 - Sequencing Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica

pp 59-82

4 - Meticulous Matrices: Building a Chronology of Albrecht Dürer’s Meisterstiche Impressions through the Analysis and Documentation of Microscopic Scratches in His Engraved Plates

pp 83-108

5 - Digital Resuscitation of the Officina Plantiniana’s Woodblock Collection: Goals, Approaches, and Results

pp 109-128

Part 2 - Imprints as Instruments

pp 129-130

6 - Academic Print Practices in the Southern Netherlands: Allegory and Emblematics as Epistemic Tools

pp 131-152

7 - Visual Worlds on Early Modern Scientific Instruments: Types and Messages

pp 153-174

8 - Visual Tools and Searchable Science in Early Modern Books

pp 175-198

Part 3 - Imprint, Knowledge, and Affect

pp 199-200

9 - The Hydraulics of the Soul: Jacobus Meilingius’s Allegorical Schemata

pp 201-220

10 - Images of the Eye from Vesalius to Fabricius ab Aquapendente The Rise of Metrical Representation in Anatomical Diagrams and the Cross-Fertilization of Visual Traditions

pp 221-242

11 - Illustrating the Vernacular Body: Juan Valverde de Amusco and the Art of Embodied Anatomy

pp 243-264

12 - Epilogue: Forgetting How to See

pp 265-286

Bibliography

pp 287-320

Index

pp 321-322