This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary
perspective the role of images and objects in early modern
knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological
approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings
together work across diverse printed images, objects, and materials
produced c. 1500-1700, as well as well as works in the ambit of early
modern print culture, to reframe a comparative history of the rise of
the 'epistemic imprint' as a new visual genre at the onset of the
scientific revolution. The book includes contributions from the
perspective of international scholars and museum professionals drawing
on methodologies from a range of fields.