Renaissance invention: Stradanus's Nova Reperta

Abstract

"This book is the first full-length study of Johannes Stradanus's renowned print series Nova Reperta, yielding insights into cross-cultural collaboration and technological change during the Renaissance"--

Contents

Foreword / Daniel Greene -- Acknowledgments -- Essays -- Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta / Lia Markey -- Philips Galle's Nova Reperta: A Case Study in Print Prices and Distribution / Karen L. Bowen -- Stradanus's Print Shop and the Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp / Dirk Imhof -- Diligent Labor in Stradanus's Engraving Shop / Madeleine C. Viljoen -- Mathematical Instruments in the Nova Reperta / James Clifton -- Invented Processes: Stradanus's Distillatio and Lapis polaris magnes / Olivia Dill -- A New World Disease and Therapy: Stradanus's Guaiacum Engraving / Alessandra Foscati and Lia Markey -- The Global Reception of Stradanus and the Political Use of the Nova Reperta / Dániel Margócsy -- Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- Conversations. -- Navigation / Jim Akerman, Pedro Raposo, and J. B. Shank -- Warfare / David Cressy, Jennifer Nelson, and Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- Printing / Jill Gage and Martin Antonetti -- Transformation / Rebecca Zorach, Luca Molà, and Matthew James Crawford -- Mechanisms / Deborah Howard, Jessica Keating, and Niall Atkinson -- Visuality / Sven Dupré, Claudia Swan, and Christine Göttler -- Catalogue of Related Works in the Newberry Library Collections / Jim Akerman, Ikumi Crocoll, Olivia Dill, Caitlin DiMartino, Andrew Epps, Christopher Fletcher, Jill Gage, Christine Göttler, Marisa Guo, Elisa Jones, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Megan Kelly, Stephanie Lee, Analú Lopez, Isabella Magni, Lia Markey, Claire Ptaschinski, Risa Puleo, Sandra Racek, McKenzie Stupica, John Sullivan, Alexandra Thomas, and Debora Wood.