Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
One Introduction: Learning to Look with Books for the Literate Eye
	Training the Eye
	Making Observations
	Methods
	Shaping Cognitive Practices
	Epistemic Images
	Chapter Précis
Part I Coaching the Eyewitness
	Two Don\'t Forget Your Apian: A DIY Guide to the Cosmos
		Images and Visual Literacy
		Updating the Ancients
		Mechanical Pictures for Observer-Centered Pedagogy
		Apian\'s Update of Sacrobosco\'s De Sphaera
		Exercising Observations
		Enabling Empiricism
		Tools and the \'\'Vernacular\'\' Viewer
	Three Facial Profiling: Physiognomy and the Art of Inspection
		Complexion Books: From Secrets to Data
		Practical Astrology
		A Riot of Faces
		Practicing Faciality
		Do You Want to Be a Physiognomer?
		Observations
		The Path to Character Heads
		Facial Index: Visual Comparisons of Faces
		Practical Physiognomy
		Artists\' Physiognomies
		Images as Data
Part II Collecting and Cognitive Challenges
	Four Visualized Data and Searchable Science: The Liber Quodlibetarius (c. 1524)
		Customized Books
		Information in Search of Seekers
		Visual Display as Collected Knowledge
		Collecting in a Virtual Ark
		Finding Aids for Consultable Images
		Handy Tools
		Data of the Earth\'s Shape
		Data Environments of Visualized Facts
		Shaping Knowledge Disciplines with Tools
		Fake Tools and Sovereign Images
		Practices of Annotation
		Artists as Inventors
		The Generative Knowledge of Geometry
	Five Vexed Viewing: Anamorphosis and the Visual Argumentation of Labored Looking
		Comparative Scrutiny
		Seeing Double
		Plotted Portraits
		Invitation to Visual Scrutiny
		The Darker Side of Visual Knowing
	Six Conclusion: Observational Thinking
		New Avenues for Research: Topographic Portraiture
Bibliography
Index