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

Folger bibliographic ID: 334843
Folger call number: Q222 .H86 2013
Folger holdings ID: 486065

General 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

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

Scientific illustration Art and science Art, British Architectural drawing Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 Lely, Peter, 1618-1680 Royal Society (Great Britain)

author: Hunter, Matthew C.
subject: Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703
subject: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680
subject: Royal Society (Great Britain)