
Drawn from Life
The use of images as evidence in historical writing has been largely neglected by historians, though recent interest in the importance of visualization in scientific literature has led to a reappraisal of their value. In Drawn from Life, Victoria Dickenson uncovers a vast pictorial tradition of ''scientific illustration'' that reveals how artists and writers, from the late sixteenth to the early n...
The use of images as evidence in historical writing has been largely neglected by historians, though recent interest in the importance of visualization in scientific literature has led to a reappraisal of their value. In Drawn from Life, Victoria Dickenson uncovers a vast pictorial tradition of ''scientific illustration'' that reveals how artists and writers, from the late sixteenth to the early n...