Image, Imagination, and Cognition

"How were the relations among image, imagination and cognition
characterized in the period 1500 – 1800? The authors of this volume
argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation
affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena
in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were
visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams,
structural models, maps, etc.); and (iii) what role was attributed to
the faculty of the imagination (psychology, creativity). The essays
collected in this volume examine the new conceptions that were advanced
and the novel ways of comprehending and expressing the relations among
image, imagination, and cognition. They also shed light, from a variety
of perspectives, on the elusive nexus of conceptions and practices." in Brill