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This may be of interest to several on this list:
_Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe_ by Susan
Dackerman
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300171075
Aug 22, 2011
442 p., 9 1/2 x 12 1/2
297 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300171075
Paper: $60.00
From the description:
An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and
historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the
Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of
others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans
Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument
makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht
Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which
astronomers copied for over a century...
/Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe/
features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and
etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical
"flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation
and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were
sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of
globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
Joel Kovarsky
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