EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Ibn Al-Haytham
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Humans don"t just recreate (mirror) god"s perfection but now strive toward their own perfect (= mathematical) understanding of nature. Again, major implications for science -> galileo some 200 years later uses the science of vision to develop his telescope. In order to prove that art could teach about nature, art theorists had to come up with a way to legitimate painting as a science . Renaissance art theorists made an association between painting and mathematics, basing their claims on the science" of perspective, which they regarded as a branch of mathematics. Considered as such, painting became a form of knowledge, instructing man about the natural world - jonathan brown, on the. Perspective makes a particular claim to truth. A geometrical method designed to render pictorial space, it promises a truthful - even scientific - representation of reality. It is a seeing through" as if through a window, to invoke leon battista.
