Cartesian contrivances
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A major challenge for illustrators throughout history has been how to represent the way nature works. Philosophers, like Rene Descartes, have often felt compelled to express their thoughts by referring to mechanical analogies. His publications use most types of illustrations available in the 1600s, including abstract diagrams and pictorial representations. One of his most famous illustrations is the celestial vortices which depict the relationship between the Sun and other planets.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Abbott's absolutes
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The scientific photography of Berenice Abbott has been very influential. She worked as photographic editor of Science Illustrated and collaborated on two high-school science books. In the 1940s and 1950s, she invented equipment for capturing invisible motions, especially the behaviour of waves and the paths of fast-moving bodies. She attempted to use the properties of photography as a visual medium that separated it from painting and hand-made graphics.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Journey into space: The techniques of perspective have achieved invisibility through omnipresence
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Filippo Brunelleschi painted demonstration panels showing how to represent space and objects on a two-dimensional surface, probably before 1413. He established that there is a direct and verifiable link between something seen from a particular point and its two-dimensional image on a plane surface. The lost demonstration panels rival other surviving artefacts from art and science for their effects on what we see.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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