Sven Dupre
Biographic Data
| ID | 301117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sven Dupre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sven |
| FAMILY NAME | Dupre |
| SIGNATURE | DUPRE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1110-1654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Failed Historical Scientific Instruments
Black, singular and plural
Not many things in nature are black. Black holes come to mind, but they are rather exceptional in their natural blackness. Appropriately, a solvent-based paint full of carbon nanotubes that absorbs almost all light, recently developed by a Massachusetts-based manufacturer NanoLab, is named Singularity Black. Made freely available, it challenges Vantablack, patented so that only the artist Anish Kapoor is allowed to use it. Absorbing 99.96 per cen…
The Nature of Glass
Scientific instruments such as telescopes and distillation columns have played a prominent role in the history of science, but the key material of which these instruments were made has received scant attention. Focusing on the glass used to make scientific instruments and on the supply chains on which its production relied—allows us to see that “glass” covers a variety of materials and that the nature of glass depends on the material knowledge an…
Reconstruction, Replication and Re-Enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Artisanal Enlightenment
Reviewed by: Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France by Paola Bertucci Sven Dupré (bio) Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France By Paola Bertucci. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France By Paola Bertucci. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. This book explores the relations…
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"Sven Dupré. Review of "Art and Optics in the Hereford Map
Gems in the Early Modern World
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the …
Perspective As Practice
This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The point of departure of this book is the recognition of the polysemy of perspective, that is, the plurality of meanings of perspective. To bring forward the polysemy of perspective, this book explores the history of 'perspectiva' in terms of practices, a conglomerate of material, social, literary and reproductive practices, through whic…
How-To Optics
perspective. 5 This recognition of the polysemy of perspective necessitates important corrections to David Lindberg's classic study of the history of optics from Antiquity to Johannes Kepler. 6 Following Panofsky, the categories of perspectiva naturalis and perspectiva artificialis were projected back into the period of the Renaissance, driven by the desire to find a rupture between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.While perspectiva naturalis …
Youthful minds and hands
In Special Issue: Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe
The History of Knowledge and the Future of Knowledge Societies
The new field of the history of knowledge is often presented as a mere expansion of the history of science. We argue that it has a greater ambition. The re‐definition of the historiographical domain of the history of knowledge urges us to ask new questions about the boundaries, hierarchies, and mutual constitution of different types of knowledge as well as the role and assessment of failure and ignorance in making knowledge. These issues have per…
Gems in the Early Modern World
Introduction
Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in a multilingual world. Given that, in such a world, translation is simply part of (scientific) life, it is all the more remarkable that practices of translation in science have received less attention from historians of science than one might expect. A focus on translation allows historians of science to scrutinize the changes and transformations of scientific knowledge in motion. Instead …
Dominique Raynaud, Optics and the rise of perspective
Optics and the Rise of Perspective is a remarkable book for its interdisciplinarity. Its author, Dominique Raynaud, a historian of science and a sociologist, has brought together three fields of study in this book, which have rarely intersected; at least not all three, more typically, two of these disciplines have fruitfully come together. The first field is the history of science, or more specifically, the history of perspective, an interdiscipl…
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Introduction
Kepler’s optics without hypotheses
Galileo
David Wootton. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xii + 328 pp. $35. ISBN: 978–0–300–12536–8. - J. L. Heilbron. Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 508 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–958352–2. - Volume 65 Issue 4
Between Raphael and Galileo. Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
Trading Luxury Glass, Picturing Collections and Consuming Objects of Knowledge in Early Seventeenth‐Century Antwerp
In this assessment of the intersection of trade, picturing collections and knowledge‐making in Early Modern Antwerp, the focus is on the role of luxury glass, mirror and lens technology and the science of optics. Emphasizing the social ties that facilitated these intersections, it is argued that newly invented luxury goods such as the pictures of collections and the art cabinets allowed Antwerp craftsmen, artists and art dealers to export the mes…
Microscopes of the Ancien Régime
Inside the Kunstkammer
Inside the Camera Obscura
In his Paralipomena (1604) Johannes Kepler reported an experimentum that he had seen in the Dresden Kunstkammer. In one of the rooms there, which had been turned in its entirety into a camera obscura, he had witnessed the images formed by a lens. I discuss the role of this experiment in the development and foundation of his new theory of optical imagery, which made a distinction between two concepts of image, pictura and imago. My focus is on how…
Galileo's Glassworks
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Introduction
Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in a multilingual world. Given that, in such a world, translation is simply part of (scientific) life, it is all the more remarkable that practices of translation in science have received less attention from historians of science than one might expect. A focus on translation allows historians of science to scrutinize the changes and transformations of scientific knowledge in motion. Instead …
Introduction
Inside the Camera Obscura
In his Paralipomena (1604) Johannes Kepler reported an experimentum that he had seen in the Dresden Kunstkammer. In one of the rooms there, which had been turned in its entirety into a camera obscura, he had witnessed the images formed by a lens. I discuss the role of this experiment in the development and foundation of his new theory of optical imagery, which made a distinction between two concepts of image, pictura and imago. My focus is on how…
The History of Knowledge and the Future of Knowledge Societies
The new field of the history of knowledge is often presented as a mere expansion of the history of science. We argue that it has a greater ambition. The re‐definition of the historiographical domain of the history of knowledge urges us to ask new questions about the boundaries, hierarchies, and mutual constitution of different types of knowledge as well as the role and assessment of failure and ignorance in making knowledge. These issues have per…
Kepler’s optics without hypotheses
Youthful minds and hands
In Special Issue: Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe
Trading Luxury Glass, Picturing Collections and Consuming Objects of Knowledge in Early Seventeenth‐Century Antwerp
In this assessment of the intersection of trade, picturing collections and knowledge‐making in Early Modern Antwerp, the focus is on the role of luxury glass, mirror and lens technology and the science of optics. Emphasizing the social ties that facilitated these intersections, it is argued that newly invented luxury goods such as the pictures of collections and the art cabinets allowed Antwerp craftsmen, artists and art dealers to export the mes…
Inside the Kunstkammer
Introduction. The Hockney-Falco Thesis
introduction 125 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Early Science and Medicine 10, 2 Also available online—www.brill.nl INTRODUCTION THE HOCKNEY-FALCO THESIS: CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES SVEN DUPRÉ Ghent University A recent article in Art Bulletin comments: “Not unreasonably, mod- ern historians of Netherlandish painting have evinced little sym- pathy for a treatment of artistic reform apparently so rooted in technological determinism.” 1 The…
Optics, Pictures and Evidence
Leonardo's drawings of optical machinery have been used (by David Hockney and others) as evidence for the claim that Leonardo built machines to make concave mirrors with which he could project images. This paper argues that Leonardo's drawings cannot be used as evidence for this claim. It will be shown that Leonardo used the drawings to communicate with his patrons and craftsmen, to experiment on paper, to record trials with models, and to think …
Introduction. The Hockney-Falco Thesis
introduction 125 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Early Science and Medicine 10, 2 Also available online—www.brill.nl INTRODUCTION THE HOCKNEY-FALCO THESIS: CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES SVEN DUPRÉ Ghent University A recent article in Art Bulletin comments: “Not unreasonably, mod- ern historians of Netherlandish painting have evinced little sym- pathy for a treatment of artistic reform apparently so rooted in technological determinism.” 1 The…
Galileo’s Instruments of Credit
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Inside the Camera Obscura
In his Paralipomena (1604) Johannes Kepler reported an experimentum that he had seen in the Dresden Kunstkammer. In one of the rooms there, which had been turned in its entirety into a camera obscura, he had witnessed the images formed by a lens. I discuss the role of this experiment in the development and foundation of his new theory of optical imagery, which made a distinction between two concepts of image, pictura and imago. My focus is on how…
Galileo's Glassworks
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Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes
Vincent Ilardi. Renaissance Vision from Spectacles toTelescopes. Memoirs of the AmericanPhilosophical Society 259. Philadelphia. AmericanPhilosophical Society. 2007. .ISBN: 978-0-87169-259-7. - Volume 61 Issue 1
Microscopes of the Ancien Régime
Inside the Kunstkammer
Trading Luxury Glass, Picturing Collections and Consuming Objects of Knowledge in Early Seventeenth‐Century Antwerp
In this assessment of the intersection of trade, picturing collections and knowledge‐making in Early Modern Antwerp, the focus is on the role of luxury glass, mirror and lens technology and the science of optics. Emphasizing the social ties that facilitated these intersections, it is argued that newly invented luxury goods such as the pictures of collections and the art cabinets allowed Antwerp craftsmen, artists and art dealers to export the mes…
Between Raphael and Galileo. Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
Kepler’s optics without hypotheses
Galileo
David Wootton. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xii + 328 pp. $35. ISBN: 978–0–300–12536–8. - J. L. Heilbron. Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 508 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–958352–2. - Volume 65 Issue 4
Introduction
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Gems in the Early Modern World
Introduction
Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in a multilingual world. Given that, in such a world, translation is simply part of (scientific) life, it is all the more remarkable that practices of translation in science have received less attention from historians of science than one might expect. A focus on translation allows historians of science to scrutinize the changes and transformations of scientific knowledge in motion. Instead …
Dominique Raynaud, Optics and the rise of perspective
Optics and the Rise of Perspective is a remarkable book for its interdisciplinarity. Its author, Dominique Raynaud, a historian of science and a sociologist, has brought together three fields of study in this book, which have rarely intersected; at least not all three, more typically, two of these disciplines have fruitfully come together. The first field is the history of science, or more specifically, the history of perspective, an interdiscipl…
Gems in the Early Modern World
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the …
Perspective As Practice
This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The point of departure of this book is the recognition of the polysemy of perspective, that is, the plurality of meanings of perspective. To bring forward the polysemy of perspective, this book explores the history of 'perspectiva' in terms of practices, a conglomerate of material, social, literary and reproductive practices, through whic…
How-To Optics
perspective. 5 This recognition of the polysemy of perspective necessitates important corrections to David Lindberg's classic study of the history of optics from Antiquity to Johannes Kepler. 6 Following Panofsky, the categories of perspectiva naturalis and perspectiva artificialis were projected back into the period of the Renaissance, driven by the desire to find a rupture between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.While perspectiva naturalis …
Youthful minds and hands
In Special Issue: Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe
The History of Knowledge and the Future of Knowledge Societies
The new field of the history of knowledge is often presented as a mere expansion of the history of science. We argue that it has a greater ambition. The re‐definition of the historiographical domain of the history of knowledge urges us to ask new questions about the boundaries, hierarchies, and mutual constitution of different types of knowledge as well as the role and assessment of failure and ignorance in making knowledge. These issues have per…
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"Sven Dupré. Review of "Art and Optics in the Hereford Map
Reconstruction, Replication and Re-Enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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