Mathematics and the craft of thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance / Eleanor Chan

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Crafting Thought -- England and the Low Countries -- Cognitive Styles -- The Structure -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The Early Modern Picture | Beeld -- Defining Pictures -- Verbeelding to Afbeelding -- Tapestry Pictures -- Towards Geometrical Pictures -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Point -- The Point -- Two Word Pictures -- Sidney's Points -- Joining the Dots: The Case of a Casting Bottle -- The Point of Jewels -- Painter-Jewels -- Mathematical Jewels and The Mathematical Iewell -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Line -- Twiste Lyne -- The Lines of Disegno, Draught and Tekening -- The Described Line -- Budding Lines -- Garlanded Lines -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Surface -- Dee's Mathematical Surface -- Linen Surfaces -- The Strange Frame of Imaginacion -- Filled/ Gelijck Surfaces -- Decorative Surface -- Eloquent Surfaces -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Body -- Rhetorical Bodies -- Spirited or Vitaal Bodies -- Paper Bodies -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Thought Crafted -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Material -- Secondary Sources -- Index.