Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Essays
• Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta
• Lia Markey
• 1.Philips Galle's Nova Reperta: A Case Study in Print Prices and Distribution
• Karen L. Bowen
• 2. Stradanus's Print Shop and the Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-century Antwerp
• Dirk Imhof
• 3. Diligent Labor in Stradanus's Engraving Shop
• Madeleine C. Viljoen
• 4. Mathematical Instruments in the Nova Reperta
• James Clifton
• 5. Invented Processes and Hands-On Knowledge: Stradanus's Distillation and Magnetic Compass  
• Olivia Dill
• 6. A New World Disease and Therapy: Stradano's Guaiacum Engraving
• Alessandra Foscati and Lia Markey
• 7.The Global Reception of Stradanus and the Political Uses of the Nova Reperta
• DÁniel MargÓcsy
• 8. Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
• Pamela H. Smith
• Conversations
• Navigation
• Jim Akerman, Pedro Raposo, JB Shank
• Warfare
• David Cressy, Jennifer Nelson, Suzanne Karr Schmidt
• Printing
• Jill Gage, Martin Antonetti
• Transformation
• Rebecca Zorach, Luca MolÀ, Matthew James Crawford
• Machines
• Jessica Keating, Deborah Howard, Niall Atkinson
• Visuality
• Christine GÖttler, Claudia Swan, Sven DuprÉ
• Catalogue
• 58 entries on materials from the Newberry's collection
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Lia Markey is the director of the Center of Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library.

Reviews

Lia Markey has assembled an excellent team of scholars to guide us through a close, careful, and well contextualized reading of Johannes Stradanus's series of prints from the late 1580s known as the Nova Reperta, some of the most evocative and emblematic images of the early modern era." - Paula Findlen, author of Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World