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.

Ruth Sargent Noyes is Marie Sklodowska-Curie EU Senior Research Fellow in Art History at the National Museum of Denmark. Author of a number of books and articles, she is a 2014 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and recipient of a number of research grants and awards.

Table of Contents
1. Prologue
For a Metaphorology of Engraving: from Epistemic Images to an Imaged Epistemology (Ralph Dekoninck)
2. Introduction
Pittura filosofica: Ink on Paper, Bitumen on Iron, and the Discursive Field of Early Modern Epistemic Images (Ruth Sargent Noyes)
Part 1: Approaches to print matrices
3. The Well-Ordered Print Shop: Sequencing the Woodblocks in the 1543 and 1555 Editions of De humani corporis Fabrica Daniel Margocsy, Mark Somos, and Stephen Joffe
4. Meticulous Matrices: Building a Chronology of Albrecht Dürer’s MeistersticheImpressions through the Analysis and Documentation of Microscopic Scratches in his Engraved Plates (Angela Campbell)
5. Digital resuscitation of the Officina Plantiniana’s woodblock collection: goals, approaches and new technologies (Jolien Van den Bossche)
Part 2: Imprints as instruments
6. The Art of Learning: The Role of Prints in Early Modern Education in the Southern Netherlands (Gwendoline de Mûelenaere)
7. ‘Ideas in brass’. Imagery on Early Modern Scientific Instruments: Types and Messages (Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert)
8. Visual Tools and Searchable Science in Early Modern Books ( Britta-Juliane Kruse and Stephanie Leitch)
Part 3: Imprint, knowledge and affect
9. The hydraulics of Jacobus Meilingius’s Figurata Meditatio Microcosmi (1629) (Anneke de Bont)
10. Images of the Eye from Vesalius to Fabricius ab Aquapendente: The Rise of Metrical Representation in Anatomical Diagrams and the Cross-Fertilization of Visual Traditions (Tawrin Baker)
11. Illustrating the Vernacular Body: Juan Valverde de Amusco and the Art of Embodied Anatomy (Emily Monty)
12. Epilogue
Forgetting How to See (Stephanie Porras)