ABSTRACT
Images play a role in organising knowledge in a variety of ways. This chapter aims to unravel the visual strategies they deploy to conceptualise, structure, and classify medical-astrological knowledge. I distinguish three domains of knowledge organisation: first, images express conceptualisations and intellectual orderings of Creation. Secondly, they structure knowledge on the page, both as layout elements and through the visual elements within the images themselves. Thus, images fulfil what Kostelnick calls ‘structural functions’ in the visual rhetoric of a book’s design. 1 Thirdly, they help readers to classify a book in terms of communicative genre.
