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Wicked Intelligence (Hardcover)
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Wicked Intelligence (Hardcover)
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In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images
were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes
drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory
walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the
"exact proportions" of sea monsters - all were created by members
of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform
of the early Scientific Revolution. Wicked Intelligence reveals
that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's
emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court
painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque
architecture such as St Paul's Cathedral. Offering an innovative
approach to the scientific image-making of the time, Matthew C.
Hunter demonstrates how the Restoration project of synthesizing
experimental images into scientific knowledge, as practiced by
Royal Society leaders Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren, might be
called "wicked intelligence." Hunter uses episodes involving
specific visual practices-for instance, concocting a lethal amalgam
of wax, steel, and sulfuric acid to produce an active model of a
comet-to explore how Hooke, Wren, and their colleagues devised
representational modes that aided their experiments. Ultimately,
Hunter argues, the craft and craftiness of experimental visual
practice both promoted and menaced the artistic traditions on which
they drew, turning the Royal Society projects into objects of
suspicion in Enlightenment England. The first book to use the
physical evidence of Royal Society experiments to produce forensic
evaluations of how scientific knowledge was generated, Wicked
Intelligence rethinks the parameters of visual art, experimental
philosophy, and architecture at the cusp of Britain's imperial
power and artistic efflorescence.
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