Abstract Though the study of copying, imitation, forgery, and reproduction have a long lineage in the history of art, this special issue, and its introduction, seek to investigate the role of copying texts, and especially images, in the process of making new knowledge in the Early Modern period. By looking at a wide variety of images produced in contexts such as artist workshops, learned societies, and publishing houses, and compared with the texts and terminologies of copying and knowledge that surround them, we are not only expanding the scope of when and where copying takes place but also, and especially, emphasizing its importance to the process of creating knowledge. Copying—both its process and how we understand it—has not been a stable concept, and this introduction digs deeper into how Early Modern artists and natural philosophers conceived of and implemented this practice.

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近代欧洲在知识复制中的实践：简介

摘要尽管对复制，模仿，伪造和复制的研究在艺术史上有着悠久的历史，但该特刊及其简介旨在研究复制文本，尤其是图像在制作新书的过程中的作用。近代早期的知识。通过查看在诸如艺术家工作室，学术团体和出版社等环境中产生的各种图像，并将其与复制的文字和术语以及围绕它们的知识相比较，我们不仅在扩大何时何地复制的范围不仅如此，而且还特别强调了它对知识创造过程的重要性。复制（无论其过程还是我们的理解方式）都不是一个稳定的概念，