{"product_id":"vision-and-its-instruments-alina-payne-9780271063898","title":"Vision and Its Instruments: Art, Science, and Technology in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eStarting with Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and Galileo's invention of the telescope--two inaugural moments in the history of vision, from two apparently distinct provinces, art and science--this volume of essays by noted art, architecture, science, philosophy, and literary historians teases out the multiple strands of the discourse about sight in the early modern period. Looking at Leonardo and Gallaccini, at botanists, mathematicians, and artists from Dante to D?er to Shakespeare, and at photography and film as pointed modern commentaries on early modern seeing, \u003ci\u003eVision and Its Instruments\u003c\/i\u003e revisits the complexity of the early modern economy of the image, of the eye, and of its instruments. The book explores the full range of early modern conceptions of vision, in which \u003ci\u003emal'occhio\u003c\/i\u003e (the evil eye), witchcraft, spiritual visions, and phantasms, as well as the artist's brush and the architect's compass, were seen as providing knowledge equal to or better than newly developed scientific instruments and practices (and occasionally working in conjunction with them). The essays in this volume also bring a new dimension to the current discourse about image production and its cultural functions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alina Payne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271063890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271063898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 9.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/07\/2015 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015","brand":"Alina Payne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809607643391,"sku":"9780271063898","price":112.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_093d50ce-1842-466c-8026-6dafe15f324c.jpg?v=1707926971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vision-and-its-instruments-alina-payne-9780271063898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}