Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science 9783110539219, 9783110520064

The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy 9780773552197

Exploring the role of women artists in creating visual imagery during the Renaissance. Exploring the role of women art

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Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics 9780823277940

Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged

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The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue 0198716818, 9780198716815

Mary Astell (1666-1731) is best known today as one of the earliest English feminists. She is also known as a Tory politi

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The Modern Art of Figure Drawing

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Touch: The Science of the Hand, Heart, and Mind

The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnected Johns Hopkins neur

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The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke 9781501757914

The Science of Modern Virtue examines the influence that the philosopher Rene Descartes, the political theorist John Loc

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In the Image of Origen: Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy 9780520965089

The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the

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Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin 9780520356122

Agnes Martin's (1912–2004) celebrated grid paintings are widely acknowledged as a touchstone of postwar American ar

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The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and Its Rewards 0810852829

The collaborative character of science and scholarship, whether formal or informal in nature, is the focus of this discu

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Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy: The Reception and the Exclusion 9781350153554, 9781350153585, 9781350153561

Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of

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