托马斯•普特法肯（Thomas Puttfarken，1943—2006），出生于德国汉堡，1967年成为伦敦瓦尔堡学院的首位阿比•瓦尔堡院士，1971年起任教于埃塞克斯大学艺术史与艺术理论系，2003年被选为英国国家学术院院士。他将文学及修辞学的理论应用于绘画领域，并且关注图形统一中的各种概念，在文艺复兴与巴洛克艺术领域的学术成就享誉全球。其代表作有《罗歇•德皮勒的艺术理论》《构图的发现》《提香与悲剧绘画》等。 洪潇亭，艺术学理论博士，任教于中国美术学院，从事外国美术史教学及译介工作十余年，主要著作有《新神殿里的雄辩术》等，译作有《现代绘画简史》《南方工作室：凡•高在普罗旺斯》等。

This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. Baxandall surveys the main themes of their art criticism and describes how their language conditioned their insights into painting.

Originally published in 2007, this fascinating work is based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between around 1400 and 1800. The first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama), it links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultu...(展开全部)

《欧洲贵族》(1400-1800)考察的是一个处于自身历史上一段漫长而动荡的时期的复杂群体——公园1400-1800时期的欧洲贵族。是一篇阐释性的论著，目的是弄清在中世纪晚期“到法国大革命”期间的几个世纪里这一群体的最重要的变迁方式。专家们发现，在欧洲的许多地区，贵族是一个复原力惊人的集团，这个集团在表面上轰轰烈烈的社会变迁中保住了财富和权力。 《欧洲贵族》(1400-1800)强调他们生活中更加重要的延续。

Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity a...(展开全部)

This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us with new m...(展开全部)

From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Bal...(展开全部)

The 17th and 18th centuries saw a 'flowering' of botanical illustration and witnessed the production of some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever produced, including such outstanding examples as the Hortus Eystettensis, the work of Maria Sybilla Merian, Thornton's Temple of Flora, Banks's Florilegium and Sibthorpe's Flora Graeca. During this period several developme...(展开全部)

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a flowering of botanical illustration and witnessed the production of some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever produced, including such outstanding examples as the Hortus Eystettensis, the work of Maria Sybilla Merian, Thornton's Temple of Flora, Banks's Florilegium and Sibthorpe's Flora Graeca. In this beautiful book, C...(展开全部)