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Author:

Hunter, Matthew C.

Title:

Wicked intelligence : visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London / Matthew C. Hunter.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 329 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Scientific illustration--London--London--History--17th century.
Art and science--London--London--History--17th century.
Art, British--London--London--17th century.
Architectural drawing--London--London--17th century.
Hooke, Robert,--1635-1703.--Criticism and interpretation.
Lely, Peter,--1618-1680--Criticism and interpretation.
Royal Society (Great Britain)--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-316) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "Very able, very sordid, cynical, wrong headed and whimsical" -- "I resolved to throw aside all manner of hypotheses ... and to attend wholly to what the appearances themselves would teach me" -- Knives out: thinking on, with, through, and against paper in the mid-1660s -- Pictorial intelligence: Peter Lely, experimental culture, and the parameters of painting -- Cascade, copper, collection: constellations of images in 1670s experimental philosophy -- "The wonderful elaboratory of the animal body": the Royal Society's repository at work -- The science of architecture and the architecture of science -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

022601729X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9780226017297 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816318406

LCCN:

2012044463

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)