Sachiko Kusukawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1062004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sachiko Kusukawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sachiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kusukawa |
| SIGNATURE | KUSUKAWA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Trinity College, Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9297-3819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maria Sybilla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science
Journal Article Maria Sybilla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science Get access Bert van de Roemer, Florence Pieters, Hans Mulder, Kay Etheridge and Marieke van Delft (eds.), Maria Sybilla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science, Tielt, Lannoo Publishers, 2022. isbn 978-94-014-8533-3. 304 pp., 140 col. illus., 30 b. & w. illus. €39.99. Sachiko Kusukawa Sachiko Kusukawa UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Evaluation of eco-friendly compounds in the manufacturing of antibacterial papers
The papers have a porous structure which can be a suitable medium for the growth of bacteria. Therefore, in the sanitary papers, creation of a suitable antibacterial property is necessary. In this way, the plant extracts were prepared using solid-liquid extraction method from the Rosmarinus officinalis, Olea europaea, Mentha spicata and Punica granatum. Relatively, the total phenol and flavonoid contents were determined according to colorimetric …
Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Conversations with Aristotle
Historia Piscium (1686) and Its Sources
Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
Kusukawa, Sachiko. Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Sex Acts in the Early Modern World), on Érudit
William Courten’s lists of ‘Things Bought’ from the late seventeenth century
Among the Sloane manuscripts now at the British Library are papers relating to the naturalist and collector William Courten (1642–1702), whose collection at Middle Temple could be visited from around 1685. The papers contain lists of acquisitions by Courten from the late 1680s, and record dates, objects, prices and the people from whom he purchased collectable objects, both naturalia and artificialia. These lists, transcribed in an online appendi…
The early days of the Foundation for Intellectual History
The early days of the Foundation for Intellectual History." Intellectual History Review, 26(1), pp. 1–2
Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age
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Introduction: Early Modern Color Worlds
Drawings of fossils by Robert Hooke and Richard Waller
The drawings of fossils by Robert Hooke and Richard Waller that were the basis of the engravings in Hooke's Posthumous works (1705) are published here for the first time. The drawings show that both Hooke and Waller were proficient draftsmen with a keen eye for the details of petrified objects. These drawings provided Hooke with a polemic edge in making the case for the organic origins of ‘figured stones’
From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections
Journal Article From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections Get access Michael Hunter, Alison Walker and Arthur MacGregor (eds), From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections. London, British Library Publishing, 2012. isbn978-07123-588-04. 288 pp., 16 col. illus., 60 b. & w. illus. £45. Sachiko Kusukawa Sachiko Kusukawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of C…
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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Gessner and the Making of the Historia Plantarum
This chapter focuses on Conrad Gessner's drawings of plants that were intended for Historia plantarum (History of plants), a project that remained incomplete and unpublished at his death. Pictures were important for Gessner, not just for knowledge presented in a printed book, but also as a means of studying plants. The Historia plantarum drawings provide a rare opportunity to examine how pictures became integral to the process of developing knowl…
The Canon of the Human Body: Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Vesalius and the Bloodletting Controversy
Bloodletting was the most common form of medical prophylactic and treatment in premodern Europe. In the sixteenth century a controversy over bloodletting was sparked by a humanist physician and admirer of Erasmus, Pierre Brissot. This chapter examines how Andreas Vesalius used pictures in the bloodletting controversy and in the dissection hall, before the publication of De fabrica humani corporis.
Text, Image, Body, and the Book
Techniques and Craftsmen
This chapter discusses the technical aspects of book production. These include the two means of image replication: woodcuts and incised metal plates. The new art of mechanically replicating texts soon incorporated both, with varying degrees of success. Discerning collectors in the late fifteenth century also sometimes went to the trouble of having a printed text copied out by a scribe and placing the manuscript copy in their libraries. This pract…
Copying and Coloring
This chapter assesses the positions of Andreas Vesalius and Leonhart Fuchs against the general practice of copying and coloring. It argues that Fuchs and Vesalius deployed images to make specific points in their study of nature, and in this sense the use of their images ran counter to the trend of copying pictures from elsewhere at the time. Coloring was also necessary to maintain the specific functions of the images in relation to descriptions o…
Publishers’ Calculations
Control
Publishers, editors, authors, painters, and engravers sought to protect their product and interests through a legal instrument called a privilege, which could be the basis of a lawsuit. This chapter discusses these privileges and lawsuits, as well as another means of controlling the printing of books—namely, censorship. No one group was more successful than another in exercising satisfactory control, mainly because of the limited means of enforce…
Epilogue
Accidents and Arguments: Fuchs’s De Historia Stirpium
The Authority of Pictures: Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer
Arguments over Pictures: Reactions to Fuchs’s De Historia Stirpium
This chapter discusses how Leonhart Fuchs' use of pictures in De historia stirpium cannot be regarded as a characteristic common to humanist medicine, because another humanist physician—Janus Cornarius—objected to his form of pictorial argument. Fuchs also did not confine himself to one way of using pictures for disseminating his knowledge of medicinal plants. The functions and uses of pictures were transformed in the various translations and edi…
Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
Leonhart Fuchs on the Importance of Pictures
Leonhart Fuchs on the Importance of Pictures Sachiko Kusukawa If not for the attractive plant with overhanging flute-like flowers that was named after him, Leonhart Fuchs (1501–66) is best known today as one of the pioneers of accurate representations of plants in histories of scientific illustrations.1 The pictures in Fuchs's Remarkable Commentaries on the History of Plants (1542) have been appreciated usually for their "naturalistic" features (…
Introduction: Early Modern Color Worlds
Image, Text and Observatio: The Codex Kentmanus
This paper examines the inter-relationship between image, text and object in the Codex Kentmanus, which is one of the earliest records of the plants in the botanical garden at Padua, studied by Johannes Kentmann (1518-77). The manuscript shows that "observation" for Kentmann involved a gradual process of assimilating knowledge from other physicians, apothecaries, and books in order to make the plants which were originally encountered at a specifi…
Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550
The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon
This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a natural …
The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon.
This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a natural …
Leonhart Fuchs on the Importance of Pictures
Leonhart Fuchs on the Importance of Pictures Sachiko Kusukawa If not for the attractive plant with overhanging flute-like flowers that was named after him, Leonhart Fuchs (1501–66) is best known today as one of the pioneers of accurate representations of plants in histories of scientific illustrations.1 The pictures in Fuchs's Remarkable Commentaries on the History of Plants (1542) have been appreciated usually for their "naturalistic" features (…
Orations on Philosophy and Education: Orations on Philosophy and Education
Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), humanist and colleague of Martin Luther, is best known for his educational reforms, for which he earned the title Praeceptor Germaniae (the Teacher of Germany). His most influential form of philosophical writing was the academic oration, and this volume, first published in 1999, presents a large and wide-ranging selection of his orations and textbook prefaces translated into English. They set out his views on the d…
The Historia Piscium (1686)
In 1686, just as Newton was preparing for the publication of the Principia , the Historia Piscium was being printed under the auspices of The Royal Society. The Historia Piscium was a work begun by Francis Willughby (1635–1672, F.R.S. 1663), completed by John Ray (1627–1705, F.R.S. 1667) and brought into print with the financial support of The Royal Society. The text and illustrations of the Historia Piscium reflect the 17th-century origins of th…
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández
Simon Varey, ed. The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Herndndez Trans. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin and Simon Varey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xix + 281 pp. + 65 b/w pis. $65. ISBN: 0-8047-3963-3. - Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán and Dora B. Weiner, eds. Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi + 229 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-8047…
Melanchthon
Albrecht Dürer famously declared that even his expert hand could not flesh out the mind of Melanchthon. In many ways Melanchthon’s thought has remained similarly elusive to modern scholars. The protégé of Johannes Reuchlin, whose precocious talents in the humanities much impressed Erasmus, seems by pedigree and training to embody the classicizing concerns and values of a humanist. Indeed, his influential educational reforms of schools and univers…
The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology
The European Reformation of the sixteenth century was one of the most formative periods in the history of Christian thought and remains one of the most fascinating events in Western history. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology provides a comprehensive guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period. Each of the eighteen chapters is written by a leading authority in the field and provides an up-to-date account and analy…
Melanchthons Briefwechsel Band T5: Texte 1110–1394 (1531–1533), Melanchthons Briefwechsel Band T6: Texte 1395–1683 (1534–1535), Melanchthons Briefwechsel, Regesten, Band 11: Personen A-E, Melanchthons…
"Melanchthons Briefwechsel Band T5: Texte 1110–1394 (1531–1533), Melanchthons Briefwechsel Band T6: Texte 1395–1683 (1534–1535), Melanchthons Briefwechsel, Regesten, Band 11: Personen A-E, Melanchthons Briefwechsel, Regesten, Band 12: Personen F.-K" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Special Section: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine, Alchemy and Magic (Part II)
Introductory Note
Introductory Note
History of Universities
Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe ‐ Edited by G. Pomata and N. G. Siraisi
Image, Text and Observatio: The Codex Kentmanus
This paper examines the inter-relationship between image, text and object in the Codex Kentmanus, which is one of the earliest records of the plants in the botanical garden at Padua, studied by Johannes Kentmann (1518-77). The manuscript shows that "observation" for Kentmann involved a gradual process of assimilating knowledge from other physicians, apothecaries, and books in order to make the plants which were originally encountered at a specifi…
Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon
Picturing knowledge in the early Royal Society: The examples of Richard Waller and Henry Hunt
Much of science today relies on visual information of one kind or other for its experiments, observations, simulations and publications. The historical study of how visual resources (such as drawings, prints or models) became integral to scientific knowledge is a developing field and an area to which the pictorial remains of the early Royal Society have much to contribute. This paper examines the examples of Richard Waller (d. 1714 or 1715; FRS 1…
Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550
Boyle: Between God and Science - By Michael Hunter
Gessner and the Making of the Historia Plantarum
This chapter focuses on Conrad Gessner's drawings of plants that were intended for Historia plantarum (History of plants), a project that remained incomplete and unpublished at his death. Pictures were important for Gessner, not just for knowledge presented in a printed book, but also as a means of studying plants. The Historia plantarum drawings provide a rare opportunity to examine how pictures became integral to the process of developing knowl…
The Canon of the Human Body: Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Vesalius and the Bloodletting Controversy
Bloodletting was the most common form of medical prophylactic and treatment in premodern Europe. In the sixteenth century a controversy over bloodletting was sparked by a humanist physician and admirer of Erasmus, Pierre Brissot. This chapter examines how Andreas Vesalius used pictures in the bloodletting controversy and in the dissection hall, before the publication of De fabrica humani corporis.
Text, Image, Body, and the Book
Techniques and Craftsmen
This chapter discusses the technical aspects of book production. These include the two means of image replication: woodcuts and incised metal plates. The new art of mechanically replicating texts soon incorporated both, with varying degrees of success. Discerning collectors in the late fifteenth century also sometimes went to the trouble of having a printed text copied out by a scribe and placing the manuscript copy in their libraries. This pract…
Copying and Coloring
This chapter assesses the positions of Andreas Vesalius and Leonhart Fuchs against the general practice of copying and coloring. It argues that Fuchs and Vesalius deployed images to make specific points in their study of nature, and in this sense the use of their images ran counter to the trend of copying pictures from elsewhere at the time. Coloring was also necessary to maintain the specific functions of the images in relation to descriptions o…
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