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Floriana Giallombardo

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"Paolo Boccone’s curious observations and the Commitment to Visual Communication of Natural History", speech at International Conference "Art and Sci…

2015

In his "Recherches et observations naturelles" (Amsterdam 1674) the botanist Paolo Boccone (1633- 1704) presents himself as an advocate of a new visual method. He was supported by Jan Swammerdam, with whom he shared his scientific observations. Boccone claims to be the first to apply microscopic dissection to figured stones, in order to distinguish accidental shapes from natural ones. Boccone, as many of the members of the scientific community with whom he corresponded, had a strong commitment to painstaking observation and visual communication, that he was able to handle on many levels. The allegorical frontispiece of "Recherches" is aimed to present a range of moral and psychological atti…

History of Science Visual Cultures of Science (Visual Studies) Natural history collections Nature prints
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Vedute d'incantesimo: l'ekphrasis di opere d'arte immaginarie al servizio dell'osservazione microscopica

2012

Ecfrasis Cultura Visuale Microscopia XVIII secolo
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I Palazzi Enciclopedici: le passioni della conoscenza e le forme del possesso

2013

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, come aspirazione alla conoscenza totale del mondo, ci costringe a interrogarci, per converso, sulle cesure che attraversano il campo del sapere entro cui ci muoviamo, e sulle finalità che può avere il mantenerle o il superarle. L’ossessione inesausta e sempre frustrata verso la totalità, in cui la ricerca si sostiene sulla meraviglia, sposta inoltre l’attenzione sulle passioni che stimolano la conoscenza: un piano di confronto dove arte e scienza, viste sotto un’angolazione storica, negoziano le loro reciproche posizioni, e non sempre risultano antagoniste. Infine, il metodo della raccolta e dell’esposizione ci induce a considerare il ruolo degli oggetti, i quali n…

55. Biennale di Venezia Dispositivi enciclopedici Wunderkammer Visual Studies
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La collezione Scilla presso il Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences: pratiche di visualizzazione dal XVII al XXI secolo

2015

The paleontological collection of Agostino Scilla (1629-1700), now kept at the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge, has been visually represented since 1670, year of publication of Scilla’s treaty La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso. The plates of the treaty have been repeatedly used in scientific literature, in comparison with the specimens of the collection and, more often, with other visualization techniques. The contentious taxonomic identification of one of those specimens, the olotype of Squalodon melitensis, shows how the legitimization of images was at the core of scientific debate. According to Daston & Galison, scientific images are epistemic objects related with specific epistem…

Scientific imageryComputer graphics Objectivity
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The unnecessary image

2014

Medical Imagery Embryology Visual Culture
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