Article ID: CBB000502151

Looking for an Artificial Eye: On the Borderline between Painting and Topography (2005)

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Camerota, Filippo (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 10
Pages: 263--286


Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Symposium on “The Hockney-Falco Thesis”
Language: English

Description Discusses optical instruments and painting. Looks at interpretation of the telescope as an “artificial eye.”


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Article Dupré, Sven (2005) Introduction. The Hockney-Falco Thesis: Constraints and Opportunities. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 125). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dinah Jasensky
Zuidervaart, Huib
Zuidervaart, Huib J.
Rijks, Marlise
Zik, Yaakov
Willach, Rolf
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Leonardo
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
Perspectives on Science
Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Pavia University Press
Verlag Harri Deutsch
University of North Carolina Press
University of Chicago Press
Cornell University Press
Concepts
Optics
Telescopes
Science and art
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Painters and painting
Light
People
Eastland, William
Wright, Joseph
Newton, Isaac
Montanari, Geminiano
Molyneux, William
Maskelyne, Nevil
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
16th century
15th century
Medieval
Places
Netherlands
Italy
Dublin (Ireland)
England
Delft (Netherlands)
Greece
Institutions
Dollond and Aitchison (firm)
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