Abstract
Mention the term “scientific illustration” to a historian of seventeenth-century science, and you will conjure up images of Galilean moons, Cartesian vortices, Newtonian reflectors, and Magdeburg spheres. Such images capture the achievements of the scientific revolution so dramatically that it is easy to presume that all contemporary scientific illustrations were as fresh and unprecedented as the scientific discoveries they represented. In truth, however, many illustrations of seventeenth-century science were not original, but were adapted in various ways from sixteenth-century models. Baroque book illustration was a conservative art.
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