Martin Brückner is professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. He is author or coeditor of several books, most recently The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750–1860.

Sandy Isenstadt is professor and chair of art history at the University of Delaware and author or coeditor of several books, most recently Electric Light: An Architectural History.

Sarah Wasserman is associate professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. She is author of The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel (Minnesota, 2020).

Contents

Introduction: Modelwork

Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt

Part I. Knowing

1. Defining Models

Annabel Jane Wharton

2. Material Models of Immaterial Things

Peter Galison

Part II. Sensing

3. William Farish’s Devices and Drawings: Models for Envisioning Immaterial and Material Realms

Hilary Bryon

4. “The Instructed Eye”: What Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Drawing Books Tell Us about Vision and How We See

Christopher J. Lukasik

5. Algorithmic Audition: Modeling Musical Perception

Martin Scherzinger

Part III. Making

6. The Useful Arts of Nineteenth-Century Patent Models

Reed Gochberg

7. Bodies Made of Numbers, Numbers Made of Bodies

Catherine Newman Howe

8. Hypermodels: Architectural Production in Virtual Spaces

Seher Erdöan Ford

Part IV. Doing

9. Modeling Maneuvers: Anatomical Illustration and the Practice of Touch

Juliet S. Sperling

10. Models and Manufactures: The Shoe as Commodity

Lisa Gitelman

11. Modeling Interpretation

Johanna Drucker

Afterword: On the Humility of Models

Sarah Wasserman

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index