The Figure of Transport: An Inaugural Lecture |
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... observer and this takes us into a different dimension , for the process of elucidation has basically changed . We cannot work this picture out on its own , simply by moving and using our normal sensual equipment . We must involve an ...
... observer and this takes us into a different dimension , for the process of elucidation has basically changed . We cannot work this picture out on its own , simply by moving and using our normal sensual equipment . We must involve an ...
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... observer is actually observing and possibly even drawing independent conclusions from his observations he is not merely fitting them in to a system which is established and fixed . So the observer / maker does not know what the result ...
... observer is actually observing and possibly even drawing independent conclusions from his observations he is not merely fitting them in to a system which is established and fixed . So the observer / maker does not know what the result ...
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... observer . The corrected view is only to be seen through a mirror - in simple cases this mirror is flat , but more generally it is cylindrical , conical , etc ... It may even become involved with prisms . and bosses . The telescope and ...
... observer . The corrected view is only to be seen through a mirror - in simple cases this mirror is flat , but more generally it is cylindrical , conical , etc ... It may even become involved with prisms . and bosses . The telescope and ...
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actual change afar allegorical ambiguities Aristotle Arte of English Artificial Magic baroque basically become British Museum Carpaccio centre change of viewpoint circumference clarity colours conceit Copernicus Curious Perspective cylindrical mirror decorative and symbolic demonstrations discovery drawing Durham endeavour English Poesie engraving envisaged fascinating FIGURE OF TRANSPORT Filère France Gilman glass harmony heaven Holbein horrors illustrated less directly Lorenzo Lotto Merchant of Venice Mersenne Metalepsis metaphysical microscope middle ages Milton Miroir Mirror Anamorphosis moon National Gallery naturall neoplatonic observer optical tricks particularly passage Pepys perhaps pictures painted Plate poem poet poet's poetic poetry prisms Puttenham Quotations realise reliance upon metaphor renaissance rhetoric Saint Augustine science and art scientific instrument scientific purpose seen sence sensual equipment seventeenth century Shakespeare shows signification simile sixteenth century socalled space St Augustine St Jerome Sunn surprising metaphor telescope things uneasiness universe uptodate verse Vignola vision voyage woodcut worketh