Instruments in Art and Science

by Schramm, Helmar

• ISBN13: 9783110202403
• ISBN10: 3110202409
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Summary

This volume presents a collection of original papers at the intersection of philosophy, the history of science, cultural and theatrical studies. Based on a series of case studies on the 17th century, it contributes to an understanding of the role played by instruments at the interface of science and art. The papers pursue the hypothesis that the development and construction of instruments make a substantive contribution to the opening up of new fields of knowledge and to the development of new cultural practices, but also to the delineation of particular genres, methods, and disciplines.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	p. V
Contents	p. VII
Introduction: The Hand as "instrumentum instrumentorum"	p. XI
Intersections: Some Thoughts on Instruments and Objects in the Experimental Context of the Life Sciences	p. 1
Representation and Distortion: On the Construction of Rationality and Irrationality in Early Modern Modes of Representation	p. 20
World Orders and Corporal Worlds: Robert Fludd's Tableau of Knowing and its Representation	p. 38
Telescope, Theater, and the Instrumental Revelation of New Worlds	p. 62
The Pathos of Function: Leonardo's Technical Drawings	p. 78
"Il pennello artificioso": On the Intelligence of the Brushstroke	p. 106
The Enlightenment "Catholization" of Projective Technology: Theurgy and the Media Origins of Art	p. 127
The Machine as Spectacle: Function and Admiration in Seventeenth-Century Perspectives on Machines	p. 152
The Anatomy of the Brain as Instrumentalization of Reason	p. 176
The "Chymistry Laboratory": On the Function of the Experiment in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Discourse	p. 201
The Order of Knowledge, of Instruments, and of Leiden University, ca. 1700	p. 222
The Ideal Musaeum Kircherianum and the Ignatian Exercitia spiritualia	p. 235
Organology: The Study of Musical Instruments in the 17th Century	p. 257
In Sound Similar to the Harps: Early Descriptions of African Musical Instruments	p. 269
Machines, Bats, and Scholars: Experimental Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	p. 280
Scientific Coordination as Ethos and Epistemology	p. 296
Breaking, Grinding, Burning: Instrumental Aspects in Early Microscopical Pictures	p. 334
The Instrument in the Image: Revealing and Concealing the Condition of the Probing Tip in Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Image Design	p. 348
Formal Signs and Numerical Computation: Between Intuitionism and Formalism. Critique of Computational Reason	p. 362
Art Precedes Science: or Did the Camera Obscura Invent Modern Science?	p. 383
Instrumentalities of Place in Science and Art	p. 394
The Eye Opens, the Lamp Goes Out: Remarks on Bergson and Cinematography	p. 421
The Illusion of Power: Central Bank Money	p. 437
The Productivity of Blanks: On the Mathematical Zero and the Vanishing Point in Central Perspective. Remarks on the Convergences between Science and Art in the Early Modern Period	p. 457
Instrumental Sound and Ruling Spaces of Resonance in the Early Modern Period: On the Acoustic Setting of the Princely potestas Claims within a Ceremonial Frame	p. 479
About the Authors	p. 507
Image Credits	p. 515
Bibliography	p. 517
Index of Names	p. 555
Index of Subjects	p. 563
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