Risalendo alla Fonte Castalia tra Arte, Storia e Scienza: Aby Warburg e John Wheeler
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Ad limina. : Frontiere e contaminazioni disciplinari nella storia delle scienze. ed. / Elena Canadelli; Claudia Addabbo; Luigi Ingaliso; Daniele Musumeci; Luca Tonetti; Valentina Vignieri; Marta Vilardo. Editrice Bibliografica, 2023. p. 136-146 (Studi e ricerche; Vol. 5).
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T1 - Risalendo alla Fonte Castalia tra Arte, Storia e Scienza
T2 - National Conference of the Italian Society for the History of Science 2022
AU - Costa, Maria Teresa
AU - Furlan, Stefano
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - This contribution intends to explore new grounds in topics such as visual epistemology and the role of images in science by putting in dialogue for the first time two distinguished figures such as the art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) and the physicist John A. Wheeler (1911-2008). In particular, we will first illustrate the highly original attempts to develop a truly visual epistemology made by Warburg in his late years, with special reference to the project of his Atlas Mnemosyne. Then, we will highlight Wheeler’s peculiar ways of engaging with the past and with images,with special reference to his activities from the 1950s on, such as his dusting-off of general relativity, his involvement in the historical preservation and transmission of the legacy of previous generations of physicists, and his use of pictures in both his research and his communicative or teaching style. Finally, we will suggest and try to illustrate some deep resonance between Warburg and Wheeler, thus vindicating the power of the former’s ideas even to understand practices at play in seemingly very distant fields such as recent theoretical physics.
AB - This contribution intends to explore new grounds in topics such as visual epistemology and the role of images in science by putting in dialogue for the first time two distinguished figures such as the art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) and the physicist John A. Wheeler (1911-2008). In particular, we will first illustrate the highly original attempts to develop a truly visual epistemology made by Warburg in his late years, with special reference to the project of his Atlas Mnemosyne. Then, we will highlight Wheeler’s peculiar ways of engaging with the past and with images,with special reference to his activities from the 1950s on, such as his dusting-off of general relativity, his involvement in the historical preservation and transmission of the legacy of previous generations of physicists, and his use of pictures in both his research and his communicative or teaching style. Finally, we will suggest and try to illustrate some deep resonance between Warburg and Wheeler, thus vindicating the power of the former’s ideas even to understand practices at play in seemingly very distant fields such as recent theoretical physics.
KW - Kunstwissenschaft
U2 - 10.53134/9788893575904
DO - 10.53134/9788893575904
M3 - Aufsätze in Konferenzbänden
SN - 978-88-9357-590-4
T3 - Studi e ricerche
SP - 136
EP - 146
BT - Ad limina.
A2 - Canadelli, Elena
A2 - Addabbo, Claudia
A2 - Ingaliso, Luigi
A2 - Musumeci, Daniele
A2 - Tonetti, Luca
A2 - Vignieri, Valentina
A2 - Vilardo, Marta
PB - Editrice Bibliografica
Y2 - 30 May 2022 through 1 June 2022
ER -