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Decolonization in Action Episode 6: Towards an African Technological & Scientific Imaginary
MehrUnderstanding Light through Art. Emeralds and the Artisan’s Contribution to Optical Knowledge
This Working Group project looked at artisans' contribution to optical knowledge. Since antiquity, the emerald has been one of the most precious stone
Talk | Mar 13, 2020 | 11:00 bis 12:30
POSTPONED: Translating Euclid into Hebrew: Ben Makhir's Translation of Data
MehrDe Sphaera: Die Bildung wissenschaftlichen Wissens durch epistemische Gemeinschaften im Europa der frühen Neuzeit
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De Sphaera: Epistemic Communities Shaping Scientific Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Perspective, Stonecutting, and Cartography in Sixteenth-Century Spain: the Schemes of Hernán Ruiz
Hernán Ruiz II, master mason of Seville cathedral and a key figure in the introduction of the Renaissance in Spain, left to posterity an architectural
3Sat über das Mississippi-Projekt mit dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Zum Video3Sat reports on the Mississippi Project in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Go to Video (in German)Masaccio's Elements of Painting: Geometrical Practice in the Trinity Fresco
The purpose of this Working Group project was to verify an alternative approach to the construction of the perspective composition of the Trinity fres
How-To Optics in Books of Secrets
Against the background of recent discussions of the artist as reader, artisanal literacy, and the role of reading, drawing, and writing in Renaissance