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1. 1. Visualizing Disease

   The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations

   

   A historical study of how medical practitioners visualized disease from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, tracing collaborations among physicians, artists, and printers to produce atlases and case illustrations of lesions, organs, and skin conditions. It examines changing techniques and media—from engraving to lithography and color—along with conventions of realism, selectivity, and aesthetics, and the institutional contexts of hospitals, museums, and teaching. Ultimately, it shows that images did not merely document pathology but actively shaped diagnostic categories, pedagogy, and the authority of medical knowledge.

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2. 2. Thinking With Objects

   The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century

   

   A scholarly history of how seventeenth-century mechanics was transformed through engagement with concrete objects, instruments, and diagrams. It shows how practitioners reasoned with levers, balances, and other devices, using problem-solving, images, and material manipulation to connect artisanal practice, experiment, and mathematical theory, thereby redefining concepts such as force, motion, and equilibrium. By tracing the circulation of tools, images, and teaching practices, it reveals an object-centered mode of thinking that underpinned the emergence of a new science of mechanics.

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