Comments for The Linder Gallery http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com A Mysterious Masterpiece Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Cornelis Drebbel’s Perpetuum Mobile in the Linder Gallery by Hubert http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/art_science/cornelis-drebbels-perpetuum-mobile-in-the-linder-gallery/comment-page-1#comment-159 Hubert Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:20:02 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=218#comment-159 About Drebbel, take a look at www.drebbel.net and read the dissertation of Dr. Vera Keller: Cornelis Drebbel; Fame and the making of modernity (Princeton, 2009) About Drebbel, take a look at http://www.drebbel.net and read the dissertation of Dr. Vera Keller: Cornelis Drebbel; Fame and the making of modernity (Princeton, 2009)

]]> Comment on Drawing and Painting? Art and Science? by Jennifer Drake-Brockman (Speake) http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting/comment-page-1#comment-73 Jennifer Drake-Brockman (Speake) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:23:19 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=204#comment-73 This reading of the relationship between the old man and the girl doesn't really depend on my earlier comment about the possibility that the old man is blind (though if he were this would point to the notion of the blind seer who because of his physical disaability sees the more deeply through the eye of his mind). Rather than anything as specific as Science or Disegno, might he not stand for the power of the intellect without whose touch the visual arts sprawl slumbering in disarray? This reading of the relationship between the old man and the girl doesn’t really depend on my earlier comment about the possibility that the old man is blind (though if he were this would point to the notion of the blind seer who because of his physical disaability sees the more deeply through the eye of his mind). Rather than anything as specific as Science or Disegno, might he not stand for the power of the intellect without whose touch the visual arts sprawl slumbering in disarray?

]]> Comment on An alternative candidate for Disegno? by Jennifer Drake-Brockman (Speake) http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/an-alternative-candidate-for-disegno/comment-page-1#comment-72 Jennifer Drake-Brockman (Speake) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:51:17 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=227#comment-72 The fixity of the gaze of the old man proposed as a portrait of Kepler suggests to me that he is blind - or nearly so. The droop of the left eyelid may suggest that he has suffered a stroke. The fixity of the gaze of the old man proposed as a portrait of Kepler suggests to me that he is blind – or nearly so. The droop of the left eyelid may suggest that he has suffered a stroke.

]]> Comment on Kepler in the Linder Gallery? by michaeljohn http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/astronomy/kepler-in-the-linder-gallery/comment-page-1#comment-60 michaeljohn Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=128#comment-60 Thanks Giancarlo. Have you tried looking at the high res version of the center table? we did consider "nuncio", in fact with Paolo Galluzzi I had a long conversation about this, but while it is difficult to be 100% sure, on close inspection "nepero" seems more plausible, making it "...ogaritmor. Io. Nepero", does that make sense? Thanks Giancarlo. Have you tried looking at the high res version of the center table? we did consider “nuncio”, in fact with Paolo Galluzzi I had a long conversation about this, but while it is difficult to be 100% sure, on close inspection “nepero” seems more plausible, making it “…ogaritmor. Io. Nepero”, does that make sense?

]]> Comment on Kepler in the Linder Gallery? by Giancarlo Truffa http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/astronomy/kepler-in-the-linder-gallery/comment-page-1#comment-59 Giancarlo Truffa Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:53:30 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=128#comment-59 I have some doubt the 3rd book is Napier's "Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio". The last word seems to me "NUNCIO" and this could be "Dissertatio cum Nuncio", again from Kepler. I have some doubt the 3rd book is Napier’s “Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio”.

The last word seems to me “NUNCIO” and this could be “Dissertatio cum Nuncio”, again from Kepler.

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