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Der 500. Todestag von Leonardo da Vinci
MehrWissenschaftsfreiheit.de publishes interview of Jürgen Renn with Joseph Vogl on academic freedom
Go to ArticleBinding Media. Painting Techniques in Art, Science, and Industry in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Germany
A painted image is perceived as a combination of forms, colors, and materials. But it is also a three-dimensional object made of different layers of c
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"Farbtheorie und Malpraxis um 1800: Der 'Farbkörper’ entwickelt sich aus den 'Gesetzen der Ästhetik und Physik’,“ forthcoming in W. Bu
Artifacts of Authentication: People Making Texts Making Things in Ming-Qing China
The uses and connotations of the word zhen (authentic, genuine, true) in Late Imperial scholarly discourse were broad. This is clear from frequent app
The 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
The Global History of the Swing
This project traces the history of an object that has accompanied us since immemorial times, from pre-imperial China and from the Greek legends of Eri
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Instruments of God: Toward a Metaphysics of Music Theory
Histories of music theory in the eighteenth century are generally written as triumphant narratives of the scientific successes of experimental philoso
Encounters between Medicine, Literature, Philosophy, and their Circulation in Public Debates
One crucial question in tracing the history of normalcy is: How does a term come to be established as a category and used to designate something as ab
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
Color Does Matter
This project concentrated on Baroque color theory and practice in the histories of art and science. It was based upon a cross-border cooperation betwe
Publications, Leonhard, Karin: "Painted Poison. Venomous Beasts, Herbs, Gems, and Baroque Colour Theory. " Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck (NKJ) (2011)