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Hopium Economy: Substance Dependencies and the Technosphere
In Department I, the artists worked on their most recent project “Hopium Economy.” The project seeks to narrate a larger context for the currently ong
Rosemarie Trockel’s Rorschach-Bilder, or, Interpretation as a Special Kind of Perception
In 1921, Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) published Psychodiagnostik. Methodik und Ergebnisse eines Wahrnehmungsdiagnostischen Experimentes (Deutenlassen
From Cennini to de Mayerne: Artists’ Recipes for Painting Materials and Techniques, 1400-1650
This project studied and reconstructed artisanal knowledge appropriated by artists through the close examination of one type of primary source: artist
Publications, The Recipes Project, Related Digital Material:, ColourConText Website, Cooperation Partners, Transitions, Université de Liège
Experimental Archeology: Scientific Techniques and Recipes from the Iberian Peninsula (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
This project focused on the assessment of scientific and technical knowledge gained in late medieval Spain in various fields of knowledge, and its app
Artists’ Optical Knowledge
The artist’s ability to construct a convincing illusion of three-dimensional space on the basis of geometry was a powerful weapon in the battle for a
Publications, Dupré, Sven: The Historiography of Perspective and Reflexy-Const in Netherlandish Art. in: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 61, 2011, Related Digital Sources, ECHO: Art and Optics
Art, Optics, and Practical Mathematics. Networks of Art and Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands
Art historians have paid much attention to the use of perspective in seventeenth century Netherlandish painting. Their geometrical knowledge and the p
Funding Institutions, Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO)
Crafting Splendor and Examining Light. The Artisan’s Contribution to the Study of Optics, 1100–1700
This project investigated how the characteristic Northern fascination with splendor created not only a fertile ground for crafts that in many ways aff
De Sphaera: Die Bildung wissenschaftlichen Wissens durch epistemische Gemeinschaften im Europa der frühen Neuzeit
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"De Sphaera" ist ein von Johannes de Sacrobosco zusammengestelltes Universitätslehrbuch, das ab der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts ungefähr 400 Jahre lang an europäischen Universitäten für die Einführung in die Astronomie verwendet wurde. Der Text wurde immer in Verbindung mit anderen Texten übermittelt, sowohl als Manuskript als auch als frühneuzeitlicher Druck.
De Sphaera: Epistemic Communities Shaping Scientific Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
No 66
"De Sphaera" is a university textbook compiled by Johannes de Sacrobosco that was used in European universities for around 400 years, beginning in the first half of the thirteenth century, for introductory classes in astronomy. The text has always been transmitted in connection with other texts, both as manuscripts and early modern prints.
Constructed Optics, Topographic Perspective, and Garden Design. The Grand Canal at Versaillles
This Working Group project chapter looked at the topographic construction of optical schemes informed by perspectival principles in early modern Frenc