Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Title Engravings -- 1.1 On the conceptual framework: mathematical sciences, legitimization, and visual communication -- 1.2 On pictures -- 1.3 Approaches to title engravings -- 1.4 Concluding remarks - What of the Scientific Revolution? -- Chapter 2. Catholic Biblical Exegesis and the Origins of the Galileo Affair: The Engraved Title Page of Clavius's Opera mathematica (1612) -- 2.1 The established facts: 1610 to 1616 -- 2.2 Christoph Clavius S.J. (1538-1612) -- 2.3 Catholic Biblical Exegesis between the Fourth Session of the Council of Trent in 1546, and 1616 -- 2.4 Copernican Theory and Catholic Exegesis -- 2.5 "Sun, stand thou still": Anti-Copernican Biblical Exegesis and the Engraved Title Page of Clavius' Opera mathematica -- 2.6 Implications of the Interpretation -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Dispute over the World Systems: Visualizations in the Copernican Debate of the 17th Century -- 3.1 Johannes Kepler and John Wilkins: variations of Brahe's "Quid si sic?" -- 3.2 Galileo and the reception of the iconography of the Dialogus de systemate of mundi of 1635 -- 3.3 The Unity of Knowledge: Jesuit Worldviews -- 3.3.1 The Unity of Knowledge I: the Frontispiece of Chistopher Scheiner's Rosa ursina (1630) -- 3.3.2 The Unity of Knowledge II: the Frontispiece of Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Almagestum novum (1651) -- 3.4 In Conclusion: the world of title pictures, worldviews and symbols -- Chapter 4. Visual Patterns of Legitimization: The Mathematical Sciences, War and Trade -- 4.1 The mathematical sciences and war -- 4.2 The visible context: the mathematical sciences and war -- 4.3 Visualizing Profit: the mathematical sciences and trade -- 4.4 Conclusion.

Chapter 5. The Visual Legitimization of Astronomy during the 16th and 17th Centuries: Atlas, Hercules and Tycho's Nose -- 5.1 Johannes Bayer's use of Atlas and Hercules -- 5.2 Atlas and Hercules: the story of an encounter -- 5.3 Tycho Brahe and the use of images -- 5.4 Brahe's legacy: Atlas and Hercules as representatives of the old and the new astronomy -- 5.5 Conclusion: newness, power and images -- Chapter 6. Picturing the Founders: Inventing a Visual Tradition for Astronomy in the 17th Century -- 6.1 Tycho Brahe and the invention of a visual tradition for astronomy -- 6.2 One picture and three authors: Nicolaus Mulerius, Adriaan Metius and Philip Lansbergen -- 6.3 The heritage in the Netherlands: Andreas Cellarius and Jan Luyts -- 6.4 Conclusion: Pictures, migrating titles, traditions and meanings -- Chapter 7. Lightheartedly Playing with Pictures: Jesuit Authors' Visual Patronage Strategies -- 7.1 Christoph Scheiner, and the art of visual homage -- 7.2 Mario Bettini: putting the garden of the mathematical sciences on the 'stage' of title pictures -- 7.3 Kaspar Schott: Princes and gardens -- 7.4 Francesco Eschinardi: playing with tradition and the usefulness of the 'palle' -- 7.5 Conclusion: books, pictures, and playfulness in the garden -- Chapter 8. Concluding Observations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- List of Figures -- Index.