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Science in Court Society: Giovan Battista Benedetti's 'Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber' (Turin 1585)

Giovanni Battista Benedetti is counted as one of the most brilliant mathematical and philosophical minds of the late Italian Renaissance. However, the theoretical and historical relevance of his work is still obscure in many respects. This is due to several factors, principal among which is the relative rarity of his major work.
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Maria Teresa Costa (2019)

Metamorphosis of ruins : the epistemology of copy and replica by the example of Palmyra

Costa, M. T. (2019). Metamorphosis of ruins: the epistemology of copy and replica by the example of Palmyra. In U. Fleckner, & E. Tolstichin (Eds.), Das verirrte Kunstwerk: Bedeutung, Funktion und Manipulation von »Bilderfahrzeugen« in der Diaspora (pp. 227-244). Berlin: De Gruyter.

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Horst Kant (2019)

Die Erforschung und Nutzung der Kernenergie : ihre Ambivalenz(en) im historischen Kontext

Kant, H. (2019). Die Erforschung und Nutzung der Kernenergie: ihre Ambivalenz(en) im historischen Kontext. In K. Fischer, & H. Parthey (Eds.), Ambivalenz der Wissenschaft (pp. 135-173). Berlin: wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.

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Elaine Leong (2019)

Transformative itineraries and communities of knowledge in early modern Europe : the case of Lazare Rivière’s 'The Practice of Physick’

Leong, E. (2019). Transformative itineraries and communities of knowledge in early modern Europe: the case of Lazare Rivière’s 'The Practice of Physick’. In J. A. Mendelsohn, A. Kinzelbach, & R. Schilling (Eds.), Civic medicine: physician, polity, and pen in early modern Europe (pp. 257-279). London: Routledge.

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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
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Ein neues Zeitalter zeigt sich mit aller Gewalt

Das Anthropozän ist da: Der Tagesspiegel über das Mississippi-Projekt mit dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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Ein neues Zeitalter zeigt sich mit aller Gewalt

The Anthropocene is here: Tagesspiegel reports on the Mississippi Project with Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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The Optical Life—Transformations of Optics in the Premodern Period

This project studied the long-term development of optics between ca. 1400 and ca. 1700. Its central objects of study were the practices of optics and
Publications, Dupré, Sven: “The Return of the Species. Jesuit Responses to Kepler’s New Theory of Images,” in Wietse de Boer, Christine Goettler, Herman Roodenburg (eds.), Sensing the Divine. Religion and the Senses, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2012.
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Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris

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Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris

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