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Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt
Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, RazPublished 2010-04-01In the seventeenth century the human observer gradually disappeared from optical treatises. It was a paradoxical process: the naturalization of the eye estranged the mind from its objects. Turned into a material optical ...Open AccessArticle -
Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye
Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, RazPublished 2010-01-01On receiving news of Galileo’s observations of the four satellites of Jupiter and the rugged face of the moon through his newly invented perspicillum, Kepler in great excitement exclaimed: Therefore let Galileo take his ...Open AccessBook chapter
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