Project @SuomenAkatemia 2021-25 | Use of graphic devices + development of graphic literacies in England 1473-1800 | PI Matti Peikola, tweets by team members.
- Tweets91
- Following140
- Followers142
- Likes28
ALT Medieval manuscript leaf: almost a full hide of parchment, 1.5 times as tall as wide, trimmed to square along the bottom and sides. The top, left untrimmed, forms a triangle with squared vertex and scooped hollows along its 2 edges. This leaf—folio 24 recto in Vatican Library, Pal.Lat. 1993—bears densely packed notes and diagrams, mostly in black and red ink, in many vertical columns. The centre column holds 6 diagrams made of concentric rings, some enclosing symbols, others radiating complex networks of straight lines. The topmost set of rings bears a human face; human feet poke out of the lowest set. 2 arms extend from the column to form a human figure. It is flanked by large drawings of zodiac symbols—bull, lion, and so on—filled-in with green, orange, brown ink. They loop the human: down along 1 arm; up the other. Bordering all this are cramped columns of notes. Above & below, further notes and sketches fill the space at wild angles. The effect is 1 of strange yet harmonious chaos.
ALT An illustration of a cross-section of the cosmos taken from Rodrigo Zamorano's Cronología y repertorio de los tiempos. The illustration shows how the knowledge from medieval sphaera was incorporated into early modern cosmography.
ALT Images of two pages from digitized version of Thomas Salusbury’s edition of works by Galileo (“The Second Dialogue” and page of text with illustration of the position of Earth around the Sun at four Cardinal points - two Solstices and two Equinoctials.