Baroque Science Bibliography

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Articles & Chapters

 

Sven Dupré, “Playing with Images in a Dark Room,” in Wolfgang Lefèvre (ed.), Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image

 

Rivka Feldhay, “Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse” in Biographies of Scientific Objects, ed. Lorraine Daston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

 

A. Mark Smith, "Ptolemy, Alhazen, and Kepler and the Problem of Optical Images," Arabic Sciences and Philosophy: A Historical Journal 8 (1998).

 

 

Books

 

Svetlana Alpers, The art of describing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).

 

Peter Dear, Discipline & experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

 

David Hockney, Secret Knowledge (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001).

 

Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979)

 

Philip Steadman, Vermeer's Camera (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001).

 

David Summers, The Judgment of Sense (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).