Johannes Kentmann (1518–1574) und Sigismund Kohlreuter (1534–1599)

Konert, Jürgen; Hausmann, H; Dietrich, H.

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“…63 Dedicated to a fellow stone-enthusiast, friend and correspondent, the Swiss natural philosopher and physician Konrad Gesner (1516–1565), Kentmann’s Calculorum qui in Corpore ac Membris Hominum Innascuntur (Torgau, 1565), contained 12 chapters on wondrous stones found in various body parts and, significantly here, included 32 illustrations of them. 64 The choice of these stones and their visual depiction was partly related to the dramatic suffering of the persons from whom the stones were extracted, and partly to the social status of the sufferer. The chapter on kidney and bladder stones, for example, centred on the story of the kidney stone of the Saxon elector Friedrich III (1463–1525), 65 who, according to Kentmann, endured an exemplary Christian death, bearing heroically the excruciating pains caused by the stone.…”

Section: ‘Seeing’ In the Sixteenth Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Images and Meaning-Making in a World of Resemblance: The Bavarian-Saxon Kidney Stone Affair of 1580

Stein

2013

European History Quarterly

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This article de-constructs and re-constructs the dynamic of a sixteenth-century political dispute between the Catholic Bavarian Duke Wilhelm V and the Protestant Saxon Elector August I. By focusing on the visual imagery which ignited the dispute, the paper explores sixteenth-century 'ways of seeing' and the epistemic role realistic images played in the production of knowledge about the natural world. While the peculiar dynamic of the affair is based on a specific understanding of the evidential role of images, the paper also argues that the wider socio-cultural context, in particular certain strategies of truth-telling, provide further clues as to the dynamic and closure of the affair.

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Section: ‘Seeing’ In the Sixteenth Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%