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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul J. Smith , Florike EgmondPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 87 Weight: 1.551kg ISBN: 9789004681170ISBN 10: 9004681175 Pages: 742 Publication Date: 21 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Early Modern Ichthyology (1500–1880) Paul J. Smith Part 1: Beginnings 2 Fish Images True to Life and a 16th-Century Controversy between Rondelet and Salviani. Essay and Documentation of the Sources Holger Funk 3 Beginnings of Ichthyological Natural History: Formal and Structural Questions Philippe Glardon 4 The Many Names of Fish: Scientific and Poetic Fish Nomenclature in the Writings of Johann Fischart and Conrad Gessner Tobias Bulang 5 Aquatilia of Portugal in 1555–1556 According to Leonhardt Thurneysser zum Thurn Bernardo Jerosch Herold and João Paulo S. Cabral Part 2: Depicting 6 Looking beyond the Margins of Print: Depicting Water Creatures in Europe, c.1500–1620 Florike Egmond 7 Ichthyology and Related Topics in MS Urb. lat. 276 (13th–17th Centuries) Cynthia M. Pyle 8 A Taste for Fish: Paintings of Aquatic Animals in the Low Countries (1560–1729) Marlise Rijks 9 Fishing in the Past: Biodiversity, Art History, and Citizen Science – Preliminary Results Anne M. Overduin-de Vries and Paul J. Smith Part 3: Fish and Society in Europe 10 Piscatorial Elements in 16th-Century Literature in Bruges: Fantasy Scenes and Compassionate Eulogies Dirk Geirnaert 11 What Are the Fish Silent about? Selected Historical Facts on the Use of Fish in Medieval Medicine A Qualitative Study Based on Sources from The Middle Low German Dictionary Archive Sabina Tsapaeva 12 The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early Modern Venice Pietro Daniel Omodeo 13 ‘Um Grande Peixe, Dona Baleia da Costa’: The Whale in Portuguese Early Modern Natural History Cristina Brito 14 ‘My Eyes Have Never Yet Beheld Him.’ Demythologising Arctic Sea Monsters in the Poetry of the Norwegian Priest and Fish Merchant Petter Dass (1647–1707) Ronny Spaans 15 The Historical Truth behind the “Salmon-Servant” Myth Rob Lenders 16 Public Opinion on Seals in Dutch Newspapers 1725–1900 Paul J. Smith Part 4: Ichthyological Knowledge from Afar 17 The Travelling Nautilus: Spaces of Circulation from the Indian Ocean to Britain Melinda Susanto 18 François de Meyer’s Fish Travelogue (1698) Paul J. Smith, Didi van Trijp and Alan Moss 19 The Afterlives of Fish Far from Home: (Mis)Representations in the Iconography of Preserved and Printed Pufferfish in 18th-Century Germany Dorothee Fischer 20 Louis Renard (1678/1679–1746) and His Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1719): 300 Years of One of Natural History’s most Curious Colour Plate Books Theodore W. Pietsch and Justin R. Hanisch 21 Distance, Geography, and Anecdote in M.E. Bloch’s Natural History of Fishes Johannes Müller 22 Between Science and Art: On Painted Natural Illustrations of Fish in China Ching-Ling Wang 23 Early “Dutch” Contributions to Japanese Ichthyology Martien J.P. van Oijen 24 Packaging Knowledge about Whales in Early Modern Japan Doreen Mueller 25 Images, Specimens, and Species: Hermann Schlegel on the Various Ways of Depicting a Fish Robbert Striekwold Index Nominum Index of Aquatic AnimalsReviews“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106. Author InformationPaul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric and early modern natural history. Florike Egmond is a historian affiliated with Leiden University. She has published widely on the early modern history of natural history, especially its social networks, information exchanges and visual culture, including Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science (Reaktion 2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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