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Ichthyology in Context (1500â1880)
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 87
Ichthyology in Context (1500â1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish â âfishâ understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the periodâs quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture. This topic is approached from various disciplines: history of science, cultural history, history of collections, historical ecology, art history, literary studies, and lexicology. Attention is given to the problematic questions of visual and textual representation of fish, and pre- and post-Linnean classification and taxonomy. This book also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological knowledge and items in and outside Europe.
Contributors: Cristina Brito, Tobias Bulang, João Paulo S. Cabral, Florike Egmond, Dorothee Fischer, Holger Funk, Dirk Geirnaert, Philippe Glardon, Justin R. Hanisch, Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Rob Lenders, Alan Moss, Doreen Mueller, Johannes Müller, Martien J.P. van Oijen, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Theodore W. Pietsch, Cynthia Pyle, Marlise Rijks, Paul J. Smith, Ronny Spaans, Robbert Striekwold, Melinda Susanto, Didi van Trijp, Sabina Tsapaeva, and Ching-Ling Wang.
Contributors: Cristina Brito, Tobias Bulang, João Paulo S. Cabral, Florike Egmond, Dorothee Fischer, Holger Funk, Dirk Geirnaert, Philippe Glardon, Justin R. Hanisch, Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Rob Lenders, Alan Moss, Doreen Mueller, Johannes Müller, Martien J.P. van Oijen, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Theodore W. Pietsch, Cynthia Pyle, Marlise Rijks, Paul J. Smith, Ronny Spaans, Robbert Striekwold, Melinda Susanto, Didi van Trijp, Sabina Tsapaeva, and Ching-Ling Wang.
Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric and early modern natural history.
Florike Egmond is a historian affiliated with Leiden University. She has published widely on the early modern history of natural history, especially its social networks, information exchanges and visual culture, including Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science (Reaktion 2017).
Florike Egmond is a historian affiliated with Leiden University. She has published widely on the early modern history of natural history, especially its social networks, information exchanges and visual culture, including Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science (Reaktion 2017).
"All [chapters] are fascinating. Ichthyology in Context will become a landmark volume for anyone interested in the history of ichthyology. [...] a fabulous insight into the thinking and research directions of the best current historians of ichthyology.
Paul Martin, University of Bristol, in Archives of Natural History 51.2 (2024): 460-461
Paul Martin, University of Bristol, in Archives of Natural History 51.2 (2024): 460-461
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Early Modern Ichthyology (1500â1880)
âPaul J. Smith
2 Fish Images True to Life and a 16th-Century Controversy between Rondelet and Salviani. Essay and Documentation of the Sources
âHolger Funk
3 Beginnings of Ichthyological Natural History: Formal and Structural Questions
âPhilippe Glardon
4 The Many Names of Fish: Scientific and Poetic Fish Nomenclature in the Writings of Johann Fischart and Conrad Gessner
âTobias Bulang
5 Aquatilia of Portugal in 1555â1556 According to Leonhardt Thurneysser zum Thurn
âBernardo Jerosch Herold and João Paulo S. Cabral
6 Looking beyond the Margins of Print: Depicting Water Creatures in Europe, c.1500â1620
âFlorike Egmond
7 Ichthyology and Related Topics in MS Urb. lat. 276 (13thâ17th Centuries)
âCynthia M. Pyle
8 A Taste for Fish: Paintings of Aquatic Animals in the Low Countries (1560â1729)
âMarlise Rijks
9 Fishing in the Past: Biodiversity, Art History, and Citizen Science â Preliminary Results
âAnne M. Overduin-de Vries and Paul J. Smith
10 Piscatorial Elements in 16th-Century Literature in Bruges: Fantasy Scenes and Compassionate Eulogies
âDirk Geirnaert
11 What Are the Fish Silent about? Selected Historical Facts on the Use of Fish in Medieval Medicine
âA Qualitative Study Based on Sources from The Middle Low German Dictionary Archive
âSabina Tsapaeva
12 The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early Modern Venice
âPietro Daniel Omodeo
13 âUm Grande Peixe, Dona Baleia da Costaâ: The Whale in Portuguese Early Modern Natural History
âCristina Brito
14 âMy Eyes Have Never Yet Beheld Him.â Demythologising Arctic Sea Monsters in the Poetry of the Norwegian Priest and Fish Merchant Petter Dass (1647â1707)
âRonny Spaans
15 The Historical Truth behind the âSalmon-Servantâ Myth
âRob Lenders
16 Public Opinion on Seals in Dutch Newspapers 1725â1900
âPaul J. Smith
17 The Travelling Nautilus: Spaces of Circulation from the Indian Ocean to Britain
âMelinda Susanto
18 François de Meyerâs Fish Travelogue (1698)
âPaul J. Smith, Didi van Trijp and Alan Moss
19 The Afterlives of Fish Far from Home: (Mis)Representations in the Iconography of Preserved and Printed Pufferfish in 18th-Century Germany
âDorothee Fischer
20 Louis Renard (1678/1679â1746) and His Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1719): 300 Years of One of Natural Historyâs most Curious Colour Plate Books
âTheodore W. Pietsch and Justin R. Hanisch
21 Distance, Geography, and Anecdote in M.E. Blochâs Natural History of Fishes
âJohannes Müller
22 Between Science and Art: On Painted Natural Illustrations of Fish in China
âChing-Ling Wang
23 Early âDutchâ Contributions to Japanese Ichthyology
âMartien J.P. van Oijen
24 Packaging Knowledge about Whales in Early Modern Japan
âDoreen Mueller
25 Images, Specimens, and Species: Hermann Schlegel on the Various Ways of Depicting a Fish
âRobbert Striekwold
Index Nominum
Index of Aquatic Animals
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Early Modern Ichthyology (1500â1880)
âPaul J. Smith
Part 1: Beginnings
2 Fish Images True to Life and a 16th-Century Controversy between Rondelet and Salviani. Essay and Documentation of the Sources
âHolger Funk
3 Beginnings of Ichthyological Natural History: Formal and Structural Questions
âPhilippe Glardon
4 The Many Names of Fish: Scientific and Poetic Fish Nomenclature in the Writings of Johann Fischart and Conrad Gessner
âTobias Bulang
5 Aquatilia of Portugal in 1555â1556 According to Leonhardt Thurneysser zum Thurn
âBernardo Jerosch Herold and João Paulo S. Cabral
Part 2: Depicting
6 Looking beyond the Margins of Print: Depicting Water Creatures in Europe, c.1500â1620
âFlorike Egmond
7 Ichthyology and Related Topics in MS Urb. lat. 276 (13thâ17th Centuries)
âCynthia M. Pyle
8 A Taste for Fish: Paintings of Aquatic Animals in the Low Countries (1560â1729)
âMarlise Rijks
9 Fishing in the Past: Biodiversity, Art History, and Citizen Science â Preliminary Results
âAnne M. Overduin-de Vries and Paul J. Smith
Part 3: Fish and Society in Europe
10 Piscatorial Elements in 16th-Century Literature in Bruges: Fantasy Scenes and Compassionate Eulogies
âDirk Geirnaert
11 What Are the Fish Silent about? Selected Historical Facts on the Use of Fish in Medieval Medicine
âA Qualitative Study Based on Sources from The Middle Low German Dictionary Archive
âSabina Tsapaeva
12 The Invisible Fisherman: The Economy of Water Knowledge in Early Modern Venice
âPietro Daniel Omodeo
13 âUm Grande Peixe, Dona Baleia da Costaâ: The Whale in Portuguese Early Modern Natural History
âCristina Brito
14 âMy Eyes Have Never Yet Beheld Him.â Demythologising Arctic Sea Monsters in the Poetry of the Norwegian Priest and Fish Merchant Petter Dass (1647â1707)
âRonny Spaans
15 The Historical Truth behind the âSalmon-Servantâ Myth
âRob Lenders
16 Public Opinion on Seals in Dutch Newspapers 1725â1900
âPaul J. Smith
Part 4: Ichthyological Knowledge from Afar
17 The Travelling Nautilus: Spaces of Circulation from the Indian Ocean to Britain
âMelinda Susanto
18 François de Meyerâs Fish Travelogue (1698)
âPaul J. Smith, Didi van Trijp and Alan Moss
19 The Afterlives of Fish Far from Home: (Mis)Representations in the Iconography of Preserved and Printed Pufferfish in 18th-Century Germany
âDorothee Fischer
20 Louis Renard (1678/1679â1746) and His Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1719): 300 Years of One of Natural Historyâs most Curious Colour Plate Books
âTheodore W. Pietsch and Justin R. Hanisch
21 Distance, Geography, and Anecdote in M.E. Blochâs Natural History of Fishes
âJohannes Müller
22 Between Science and Art: On Painted Natural Illustrations of Fish in China
âChing-Ling Wang
23 Early âDutchâ Contributions to Japanese Ichthyology
âMartien J.P. van Oijen
24 Packaging Knowledge about Whales in Early Modern Japan
âDoreen Mueller
25 Images, Specimens, and Species: Hermann Schlegel on the Various Ways of Depicting a Fish
âRobbert Striekwold
Index Nominum
Index of Aquatic Animals
All interested in the history of ichthyology, the interrelation between early modern natural history and visual and literary culture, and the transnational exchanges of knowledge and naturalia as objects in and outside Europe. Keywords: ichthyology, history of natural science, early modern natural history, Gessner, painting, poetry, classification, taxonomy, Japan, China, historical ecology, collections.