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Geographies of Knowing: China Historical GIS
Models and sketches provide a way of transmitting practical knowledge across distances without personal contact. Their role in Chinese history is uncl
Craft Knowledge Experimentation and Theory Construction: A Rereading of the "Jingjing lingchi" 鏡鏡詅癡 (Blazoning Infatuation in Front of Mirrors)
Stimulated by a group of optical toys and instruments from Europe, such as eyeglasses, mirrors, camera obscura, magic lanterns, telescopes, and kaleid
Forschungsgruppenleiter Alexander Blum wurde von Spiegel Online zum Nobelpreis interviewt
Zum ArtikelResearch Group Leader Alexander Blum in Spiegel Online on the history of the Nobel Prize
Go to ArticleThe Hebrew Translation of Euclid’s “Data”
This project is dedicated to Jacob ben Makhir’s Hebrew translation of Euclid’s Data, completed in 1272 and titled Seffer ha-Mattanot. Jacob ben Makhir
Gemeinsames Symposium „History for Physics“ am Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik in Potsdam
PRESS RELEASE (PDF)Joint Symposium “History for Physics” at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam (November 28–29, 2019)
PRESS RELEASE (PDF)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)
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