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This quantity offers a suite of unique papers on the intersection of philosophy, the background of technology, cultural and theatrical reports. in accordance with a sequence of case reviews at the seventeenth century, it contributes to an figuring out of the function performed by means of tools on the interface of technological know-how and paintings. The papers pursue the speculation that the improvement and building of tools make a great contribution to the opening of new fields of information, the advance of latest cultural practices, but additionally to the delineation of specific genres, tools, and disciplines. this angle leads the authors to mirror anew on what actually defines an software and to improve a chain of uncomplicated inquiries to verify what an device is - which activities does the tool include? which activities does the software make attainable? - whilst do the gadgets of exam themselves turn into tools? what talents are required to take advantage of an software, which talents does it produce? With its mix of latest theoretical types and old case experiences, its certain demonstration of the mutual effect of artwork and technological know-how with the device because the element of intersection, this quantity enters new territory. it really is of serious price for all these attracted to the historical past of our belief of tools. in addition to the editors, the authors of the papers are: Jörg Jochen Berns, Olaf Breidbach, Georges Didi-Huberman, Peter Galison, Sybille Krämer, Dieter Mersch, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, and Otto Sibum.
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In his account of the life of the artist, Antonio Manetti writes about two panels made between 1418 and 1425, mounted in the baptistery in Florence, which presented an almost perfect play of illusion. One could contemplate this through a hole drilled in a canvas screen that captured the gaze, a trompe-l’œil effect being achieved thanks to a sophisticated system of mirrors. This arrangement seems a perfect example of the early connection between the eye, mathematics and mechanics: for in order to enable the exact perception of pictures a fixed point of view had to be chosen so that the vanishing point, visual axis and the standpoint of the viewer related to each other.
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This holds true for the Tetraktys because, in accordance with its own structure and entitlement, it allowed the creation of quantities that were not plausible within its own terms of reference. An analogous phenomenon can be seen in the mathematical thinking of the early modern era, especially in the predominant projection geometry. This paper is an investigation of only one detail of geometrical thinking that played an important role in the development of art and visual representation from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries: the dialectic of central perspective and anamorphosis.