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Projecting spiritsspeculation, providence, and early modern optical media /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Projecting spiritsPasi Väliaho.
其他題名:	speculation, providence, and early modern optical media /
作者:	Väliaho, Pasi.
出版者:	Stanford, CA :Stanford University Press,c2022.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (272 p.)
標題:	Camera obscurasHistory17th century.
電子資源:	https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503631946
ISBN:	9781503631946$q(ebook)

Projecting spiritsspeculation, providence, and early modern optical media /
Väliaho, Pasi.

Projecting spiritsspeculation, providence, and early modern optical media /[electronic resource] :Pasi Väliaho. - Stanford, CA :Stanford University Press,c2022. - 1 online resource (272 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period--the camera obscura and the magic lantern--developed in response to, and framed, the era's key intellectual dilemma of whether the world fell under God's providential care, or was subject to chance and open to speculating. As Väliaho shows, camera obscuras and magic lanterns were variously employed to give the world an intelligible and manageable design. Jesuit scholars embraced devices of projection as part of their pursuit of divine government, whilst the Royal Society fellows enlisted them in their quest for empirical knowledge as well as colonial expansion. Projections of light and shadow grew into critical metaphors in early responses to the turbulences of finance. In such instances, Väliaho argues, "projection" became an indispensable cognitive form to both assert providence, and to make sense of an economic reality that was gradually escaping from divine guidance. Drawing on a range of materials--philosophical, scientific and religious literature, visual arts, correspondence, poems, pamphlets, and illustrations--this provocative and inventive work expands our concept of the early media of projection, revealing how they spoke to early modern thinkers, and shaped a new, speculative concept of the world"--

ISBN: 9781503631946$q(ebook)

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781503631946doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

959892
Camera obscuras
--History--17th century.

LC Class. No.: QC372 / .V35 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 535.028

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