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Director Dagmar Schäfer mentioned in EuroJournal on the 2020 Leibniz Prize
Go to Article (in German)Divido in Simile Parte: Representation of Distance and Quantity in Leon Battista Alberti’s "De pictura"
Art history textbooks state that the first mathematically exact procedure used to construct perspective was invented by Filippo Brunelleschi in Floren
Studentische Hilfskraft (Prof. emer. Daston)
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG)
Direktorin emerita Lorraine Daston
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Studentische Hilfskraft (Prof. emer. Daston)
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG)
Direktorin emerita Lorraine Daston
sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt
The Diffusion of Optical Knowledge during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance
How well was the field of optics understood during the European Middle Ages and Renaissance? And how was that understanding achieved? Until fairly rec
科学史新论: 范式更新与视角转换. History of science reader
The History of Science Reader Project encompasses three publications, two drawing on articles published initially in English, and one featuring articles originally published in Chinese.
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Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo Archives in the Humanities and Sciences
Taking the material approach to photography as a starting point the volume offers new insights into the epistemological potential of analog and digital photographs and photo archives in the humanities and sciences from a comparative viewpoint.
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From the Vitruvian Prospectiva Aedificandi to the Euclidean Piazza in Trecento. Architectural Theory and Practice
This project developed certain ideas first explored in Dominion of the Eye. It studied the appropriation of the ancient/medieval science of optics in
The Art of Observation in the Early Modern Print (1500–1700)
This project examined how first-hand observations came to be recorded in images in several printed genres that claimed to reproduce unmediated experie
Extracting Knowledge from Optical Artifacts: On Mydorge’s Experiments
Claude Mydorge (1585–1647) is a remarkable figure closely linked into the intellectual circle around Mersenne and Descartes. Educated by the Jesuits a