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Denkstijlen. Honours Programme 4e bijeenkomst 7 oktober 2004. h.zwart@science.ru.nl www.sci.kun.nl/filosofie. "Archimedes" (1620) Domenico Fetti. Archimedes Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652). Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).
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Denkstijlen Honours Programme 4e bijeenkomst 7 oktober 2004 h.zwart@science.ru.nl www.sci.kun.nl/filosofie
Archimedes Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652)
"The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Conclusion of his operation." (1771)
Three persons viewing a gladiator by candlelight – 1764/1765
Joseph Wright (1737 – 1797) • “One of the most unjustly obscure painters” • "Lunar Society“ - Josiah Wedgewood - James Watt - Joseph Priestly - Erasmus Darwin - John Whitehurst
Selmar Hess 1894
Johannes Vermeer 1632 - 1675
“‘The camera obscura helps me to see in a different way’, he explained, ‘to see more of what is there’” “He borrowed Van Leeuwenhoek’s camera obscura again and allowed m to look through it. I saw miniature, reversed pictures of things, the colours became more intense…”
De la terre à la lune (1865) Jules Verne (1822 – 1905) Edouard Riou(1838-1900)
Jules Verne (1865)“Foul Weather” The weather, hitherto so fine, suddenly changed; the sky became heavy with clouds. It could not have been otherwise after the terrible derangement of the atmospheric strata, and the dispersion of the enormous quantity of vapour arising from the combustion of 200,000 pounds of pyroxyle! … On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds-- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! But since man had chosen so to disturb the atmosphere, he was bound to accept the consequences of his experiment.