Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)

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Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)

Smith, Paul J.; Egmond, Florike

Brill

12/2023

776

Dura

Inglês

9789004681170

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments


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 Joao 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 Francois 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 Mueller





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 Animals