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Baroque Science, Experimental Art? Jusepe de Ribera and other Neapolitan Sceptics

Dezember 10, 2020, 12:46 p.m., nItay Sapirn, Allgemein.

Abstract

Current attempts by historians of science to revise the narrative of the Scientific Revolution by using the concept of the Baroque have important implications for art history. Correspondences between baroque art and baroque science gain new complexity when the rational, epistemologically optimistic image of the New Science is put in doubt. Rather than a method of objective observation, early seventeenth‐century science and art share an acceptance of the constructed nature of reality, of human epistemological limitations and of the role of passions in the observation of the world. While Caravaggio has revolutionised art precisely through his interest in questions of knowledge and sensorial perception and by his subversive transformation of Renaissance epistemological values and ideals, this article concentrates on the work of Jusepe de Ribera, who made the senses and their shortcomings a major theme of his pictorial research. Ribera's epistemology is examined in the context of contemporary Neapolitan philosophy and science. Through the confrontation of some of the Spagnoletto's paintings with the work of figures such as Giovanni Battista della Porta, Federico Cesi and particularly Colantonio Stigliola, it becomes clear that early modern Neapolitan faith in rational knowledge was more ambiguous than is sometimes assumed.

Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000013?af=R

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Einstein’s Washington Manuscript on Unified Field Theory**

Dezember 10, 2020, 12:44 p.m., nTilman Sauer, nTobias Schützn, Beitrag.

Abstract

In this note, we point attention to and briefly discuss a curious manuscript of Einstein, composed in 1938 and entitled “Unified Field Theory,” the only such writing, published or unpublished, carrying this title without any further specification. Apparently never intended for publication, the manuscript sheds light both on Einstein′s modus operandi as well as on the public role of Einstein′s later work on a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism.

Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000007?af=R

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Einstein’s Washington Manuscript on Unified Field Theory**

Dezember 10, 2020, 12:44 p.m., nTilman Sauer, nTobias Schützn, Allgemein.

Abstract

In this note, we point attention to and briefly discuss a curious manuscript of Einstein, composed in 1938 and entitled “Unified Field Theory,” the only such writing, published or unpublished, carrying this title without any further specification. Apparently never intended for publication, the manuscript sheds light both on Einstein′s modus operandi as well as on the public role of Einstein′s later work on a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism.

Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000007?af=R

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