ResearchGuides: Art and Science: History of Scientific Illustration

Scientific Illustration Through the Ages

Visual Representations in Science by Nicola Mößner
Call Number: 2nd Floor Q222 .M67 2018
ISBN: 9781138089938
Publication Date: 2018-05-17
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Edited by Susan Dackerman
Call Number: Q222 .P74 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Investigate the close working relationships between artists and the scientific community during the sixteenth century, as advances in printmaking revolutionized the conceptualization of ideas.
The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by Edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre, Jürgen Renn and Urs Schoepflin
Call Number: Q223 .P68 2003
Review this series of papers focused on the impact of images on the history of science and their role as visual mediator between scientific knowledge and culture.
Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment by William R. Shea
Call Number: Q222 .S38 2000
ISBN: 0881352853
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Through a series of essays, examine the importance of scientific illustration in the 18th century.
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela Smith
Call Number: Q171 .S5931 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Investigate the impact artistic practices had on the emergence of a new, naturalistic philosophy, that came to be known as "science."
Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo by Eileen Reeves
Call Number: Q171 .R35 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Explore the relationship between Galileo's astronomical progress and works of art in the 1600's.
Merchants and Marvels by Edited by Pamela Smith and Paula Findlen
Call Number: Q171 .M39 2002
Publication Date: 2001
Examine the influence commerce and patronage had on the practitioners and artists of the new field of science.
Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe by Edited by Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Maclean
Call Number: Q127 .E8T72 2006
Identify the consequences of interaction between the means of communicating early scientific knowledge - words, images and instruments.
Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World by Victoria Dickenson
Call Number: QH46.5 .D524 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Glimpse the view of North American life as held in the past through an analysis of the visual language of the times.
The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550 by David Landau; Peter W. Parshall
Call Number: NE441.5.R44 L36 1994
ISBN: 9780300068832
Study the consequences of the invention and evolution of printmaking on the exchange of images and ideas.
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith
Call Number: QH46.5 .S54 2006
Publication Date: 2006
View the images Darwin used to support his evolutionary claims and the effect those images had on contemporary literature, art and culture.
Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural: Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Edited by Andrew Graciano
Call Number: QH46.5 .V59 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Compare historical connections between art and science through this series of essays.

Artists and Engineers at Work

Description de l'Égypte Antiquités. In this detail from a much wider view, several artists can be seen, leaning over their sketching tables, drawing the Kiosk of Trajan on the isle of Philae.
Image from the online exhibition, Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt

Overview of Scientific Illustration

Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science by Martin Kemp
Call Number: NX180 .S3 K435 2000
Publication Date: 2001
Browse this collection of essays from Nature that explore the boundaries between art and science one image at a time.
Images of Science: a History of Scientific Illustration by Brian Ford
Call Number: Q222 .F67 1992
Publication Date: 1992
See how "science formed with the aid of its illustrators" in this overview from the first recorded human observations to modern times.
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science by John Barrow
Call Number: QB981 .B2716 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Tour modern science through iconic images, such as the first graph, microscopic view, photo from the Hubble Space Telescope or diagram of a Pythagoras' Theorem.
The Scientific Image: From Cave to Computer by Harry Robin
Call Number: Q222 .R63 1992
View hundreds of scientific images, from ancient sky charts to sophisticated computer renderings, in the context of their creators and times.

Surveys of Art and Science

Picturing Science, Producing Art by Edited by Caroline Jones and Peter Galison
Call Number: Q171 .P46 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Analyze knowledge production through choices in artistic style, selection of content and cultural assumptions.
Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication by Edited by Luc Pauwels
Call Number: Q223 .V5739 2006
Publication Date: 2005
Review representational means and practices within the context of developing "a visual literacy for scientists."
Picturing Knowledge by Edited by Brian Baigrie
Call Number: Q222 .P52 1996
Publication Date: 1996
Examine the role that art plays in the creation of scientific knowledge over a wide variety of academic disciplines.