dr. Sven Dupré
Postal adress:
Sint-Hubertusstraat 2
B-9000 Gent
Phone: 0032 9 264 94 53
Fax: 0032 9 264 41 81
Email:
Visiting adress:
Plateau/Rozier [entrance Gezusters Lovelingstraat/Plateaustraat], room B.01.17
Bio
Sven Dupré (1975) is a Research Fellow of the Research Foundation –
He is the coordinator of the Scientific Research Network ‘Circulating Knowledge in Early Modern Science’ of the Research Foundation –
He was responsible for several international workshops and conferences, two of which were sponsored by the European Science Foundation, ‘The Institutional Contexts of Natural Philosophy’ (in April 2006), and ‘Optics, Instruments and Painting: The Hockney-Falco Thesis Revisited’ (in November 2003). He gave invited talks at the Unit of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, the National Archives in The Hague, the University of Cambridge, the Museum of History of Science at the University of Oxford, the Dibner Institute for History of Science (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts), the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice, the University of Antwerp, the Free University of Brussels, the Royal Academy of Belgium of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, the University of St. Andrews, the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden, The Cohn Institute for the History of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University, the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik of the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences in Zanjan, the University of Milan, the Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg, the University of Leuven, the University of Utrecht, the University of London.
Field of research: Art as Knowledge/Philosophy and the Natural Sciences in their Historical Relation/Knowledge Circulation and Transfer
Research projects
Teaching
Publications related to the field of history of science
Books
(as editor) [with Sachiko Kusukawa] The Circulation of News and Knowledge in Intersecting Networks, “History of Universities”, vol. 23.2, pp. 1-158, 2008, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
(as editor) Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420-1720: Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis, Special Issue of 'Early Science and Medicine', vol. 10 (2), 2005, pp. 125-339.
[Reviewed in Nature, 15 December 2005, pp. 916-7;
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 June 2006]
Renaissance Optics: Instruments, Practical Knowledge and the Appropriation of Theory. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint 246, 2003, 112 pp.
De Optica van Galileo Galilei: Interactie tussen Kunst en Wetenschap. Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Nieuwe Reeks, Nummer 5. Paleis der Academiën, Brussel, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2001, 283 pp.
Contributions to journals and volumes
'The Making of Practical Optics: Mathematical Practitioners’ Appropriation of Optical Knowledge between Theory and Practice', in Lesley Cormack (ed.), Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
‘Printing Practical Mathematics: Oronce Fine’s ‘De speculo ustorio’ between Paper and Craft’, in Alexander Marr (ed.), The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and the Book in Renaissance France, St. Andrews Studies in Art History, vol. 2, Paul Watkins Publishing, forthcoming.
[with Michael Korey] 'Optical Objects in the Dresden Kunstkammer: Lucas Brunn and the Courtly Display of Knowledge', in Giorgio Strano, Stephen Johnston, Mara Miniati, Alison Morrison-Low (eds.), European Collections of Scientific Instruments: 1550-1750 (History of Science and Medicine Library, vol. 10), Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009, pp. 61-85.
'Die Ursprünge des Teleskops: Von der Lesebrille bis zum astronomischen Fernrohr', Sterne und Weltraum, vol. 48 (2009), pp. 44-54.
[with Sachiko Kusukawa] 'Introduction: The Circulation of News and Knowledge in Intersecting Networks', History of Universities, vol. 23 (2008), pp. 1-5.
'Newton’s Telescope in Print: The Role of Images in the Reception of Newton’s Instrument', Perspectives on Science, vol. 16 (2008), pp. 328-359.
'Inside the Camera Obscura: Kepler’s Experiment and Theory of Optical Imagery', Early Science and Medicine, vol. 13 (2008), pp. 219-244.
'Aguilón, Vitruvianism and his Opticorum libri sex', in Piet Lombaerde (ed.), Innovation and Experience in Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands: The case of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp (Architectura Moderna, vol. 6), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008, pp. 53-66.
‘The Prehistory of the Invention of the Telescope’, in Giorgio Strano (ed.), Galileo’s Telescope. The Instrument that Changed the World, Florence, Giunti, 2008, pp. 19-31 (+ 10 catalogue entries, pp. 123-129) [translated in Italian: ‘Preistoria dell’ invenzione del telescopio’, in Giorgio Strano (ed.), Il telescopio di Galileo. Lo strumento che ha cambiato il mondo, Firenze, Giunti, pp. 19-31 (+ 10 catalogue entries, pp. 123-129)].
'Images in the Air: Optical Games, Magic, and Imagination' in Christine Göttler & Wolfgang Neuber (eds.), Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture (Intersections, vol. 9), Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. 71-92.
‘Rheita, Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Schyrle [Schierl, Schürle]’, in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey et al., New York: Springer, 2007, pp. 965-966.
'Playing with Images in a Dark Room: Johannes Kepler’s Ludi inside the Camera Obscura', in Wolfgang Lefèvre (ed.), Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projeted Image, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Preprint 333, 2007, pp. 59-73.
'François de Aguilón, Optica en Vitruvianisme', Scientiarum Historia, vol. 32, 2006, pp. 17-36.
'Optica est ars bene videndi: From Gemma's radius to Galileo's telescope', in Menso Folkerts and Andreas Kühne (eds.), Astronomy as a Model for the Sciences in Early Modern Times: Papers from the International Symposium Munich 10-12 March 2003, Algorismus: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften vol. 59, Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2006, pp. 355-368.
[with Michael Korey] 'The Use and Re-use of Optical Instruments: Creating Knowledge in the Dresden Kunstkammer', in Bart Grob and Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who needs scientific instruments?: Conference on Scientific Instruments and their Users 20-22 October 2005, Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2006, pp. 75-80.
'Visualization in Renaissance Optics: The Function of Geometrical Diagrams and Pictures in the Transmission of Practical Knowledge', in Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images and Instruments in Early Modern Europe, edited by Sachiko Kusukawa & Ian Maclean, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 11-39.
'The Optics of Ettore Ausonio: Instrument Design and Optics in Sixteenth Century Italy', in Juan Jose Saldana (ed.), Science and Cultural Diversity: Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of the History of Science, Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia, 2005, pp. 475-491.
'The Hockney-Falco Thesis: Constraints and Opportunities', Early Science and Medicine, vol. 10 (2005), pp. 125-136.
'Optics, Pictures and Evidence: Leonardo's Drawings of Mirrors and Machinery', Early Science and Medicine, vol. 10 (2005), pp. 211-236.
'Ausonio's Mirrors and Galileo's Lenses: The Telescope and Sixteenth-century Practical Optical Knowledge', Galilaeana: Journal of Galilean Studies, vol. 2 (2005), pp. 145-180.
'The Dioptrics of Refractive Dials in the Sixteenth Century', Nuncius, vol. 18 (2003), pp. 39-68.
'Galileo's Telescope and Celestial Light', Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 34 (2003), pp. 369-399.
'Galilei en Kunst', in John De Poorter (ed.), De Val van Galilei, www.devalvangalilei.be, met steun van Arteveldehogeschool, Centrum Informatieve Spelen, Vlaamse Regering, 2002.
'Galileo, Mathematical Instruments and Orthographic Projection', Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No. 69 (2001), pp. 10-20.
Mathematical Instruments and the 'Theory of the Concave Spherical Mirror': Galileo's Optics beyond Art and Science', Nuncius, vol. 15 (2000), pp. 551-588.
Reviews and Review Essays
'Microscopes of the Ancien Régime'. Review of Dario Generali and Marc J. Ratcliff (eds.), From Makers to Users: Microscopes, Markets, and Scientific Practices in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Dagli artigiani ai naturalisti: Microscopi, offerta dei mercati e pratiche scientifiche nei secoli XVII e XVIII.
Review of Edward Grant, A history of natural philosophy from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, in Medical History, vol. 53 (2009), pp. 149-150.
'De hand van Galilei', [review of Horst Bredekamp, Galilei der Künstler: Der Mond, die Sonne, die Hand, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2007], De Gids, August 2008, pp. 666-678.
Review of Horst Bredekamp, Galilei der Künstler: Der Mond, die Sonne, die Hand, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2007, in Nuncius, vol. 23 (2008), pp. 396-397.
Review of Jutta Schickore, The microscope and the eye: A history of reflections, 1740-1870, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, in Bildwelten des Wissens, vol. 6 (2008), pp. 107-108.
Review of Eileen Reeves, Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Press, 2008, in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 61 (2008), pp. 928-929.
'The telescope in history'. Review of Jürgen Hamel and Inge Keil (eds.), Der Meister und die Fernrohre: Das Wechselspiel zwischen Astronomie und Optik in der Geschichte, Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2007, in Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 39, pp. 410-411.
Review of Vincent Ilardi, Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes, Philadelphia; American Philosophical Society, 2007, in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 61 (2008), pp. 250-252.
Review of Mario Biagioli, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2006, in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 60 (2007), pp. 223-225.
Review of Jean-Vincent Blanchard, L’ optique du discours au XVIIe siècle: De la rhétorique des jésuites au style de la raison moderne (Descartes, Pascal), Les Presses de l’ Université Laval, 2005, in Isis, vol. 97 (2006), pp. 746-747.
Review Essay of Arnaud Maillet, The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art, New York: Zone Books, 2004, in Aestimatio, vol. 2 (2005), pp. 24-32.
Review of John North, The ambassadors' secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance, London/New York: Hambledon and London, 2002, in Isis, vol. 95 (2004), pp. 487-488.
Review of Gerard Simon, Archeologie de la vision, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2003, in Archives Internationales d' Histoire des Sciences, vol. 54 (2004), pp. 192-194.