Diagrams as a visual technique played a key role in early modern natural history.Robert Morison,a Scottish botanist and the first Professor of Botany at Oxford University,made a noteworthy early attempt in the 17th ce...Diagrams as a visual technique played a key role in early modern natural history.Robert Morison,a Scottish botanist and the first Professor of Botany at Oxford University,made a noteworthy early attempt in the 17th century to promote the use of diagrams in plant taxonomy.By pioneering the use of diagrams as the core of his botanical monographs,Morison inverted the order in which text and diagrams are read in natural history books and made diagrams more than a mere adjunct to the main text.Morison also consciously aligned the structure of the diagrams with the spatial arrangement of his seed collection and the Oxford Botanic Garden,so that the diagrams functioned productively as a means of bridging difierent botanical practices and retrieving information from multiple aspects.Morison’s appropriation and mobilisation of the diagrammatic mode of representation that originated in the Middle Ages helped pave the way for the diagram,as a visual language between textuality and pictoriality,to become prevalent amongst early modern naturalists.展开更多
李约瑟(Joseph Needham,1900年12月9日-1995年3月24日),出生于英国伦敦,英国剑桥李约瑟研究所第一任所长,中国科学院外籍院士,中国人民的老朋友。他为中国人所熟悉的就是著名的“李约瑟之问”,以及诞生这一世纪之问的七卷本近三十册煌...李约瑟(Joseph Needham,1900年12月9日-1995年3月24日),出生于英国伦敦,英国剑桥李约瑟研究所第一任所长,中国科学院外籍院士,中国人民的老朋友。他为中国人所熟悉的就是著名的“李约瑟之问”,以及诞生这一世纪之问的七卷本近三十册煌煌巨著《中国科学技术史》(Science and Civilisation in China,SCC)。展开更多
文摘Diagrams as a visual technique played a key role in early modern natural history.Robert Morison,a Scottish botanist and the first Professor of Botany at Oxford University,made a noteworthy early attempt in the 17th century to promote the use of diagrams in plant taxonomy.By pioneering the use of diagrams as the core of his botanical monographs,Morison inverted the order in which text and diagrams are read in natural history books and made diagrams more than a mere adjunct to the main text.Morison also consciously aligned the structure of the diagrams with the spatial arrangement of his seed collection and the Oxford Botanic Garden,so that the diagrams functioned productively as a means of bridging difierent botanical practices and retrieving information from multiple aspects.Morison’s appropriation and mobilisation of the diagrammatic mode of representation that originated in the Middle Ages helped pave the way for the diagram,as a visual language between textuality and pictoriality,to become prevalent amongst early modern naturalists.
文摘李约瑟(Joseph Needham,1900年12月9日-1995年3月24日),出生于英国伦敦,英国剑桥李约瑟研究所第一任所长,中国科学院外籍院士,中国人民的老朋友。他为中国人所熟悉的就是著名的“李约瑟之问”,以及诞生这一世纪之问的七卷本近三十册煌煌巨著《中国科学技术史》(Science and Civilisation in China,SCC)。
