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Sabine E. Wildevuur: Invisible Vision

Sabine E. Wildevuur asks: Could Science learn from the Arts. My answer as a historian is that science since the Renaissance has constantly exploited techniques of visual representation forged in the arts. It continues to do so even when its practitioners are blithely unaware of the legacy. Every image that portrays something in space as a three-dimensional object illuminated from a specific light source ultimately depends of the visual revolution wrought by Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Leonardo and other pioneers of Renaissance naturalism. The systematic rendering of something in plan and elevation depends upon techniques devised by Renaissance architects. It also seems likely that the first methodical use of sections, particularly solid sections, first occurred in the work of architects and designers in the circle of Leonardo.

Sabine E. Wildevuur: Invisible Vision
Uitgever: Bohn, Stafleu Van Loghum

Source: Waag