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The Visual Apparatus of the Sphaera Corpus
DHAI Seminar 2021-2022
Tuesday 7 December 2021 Tuesday 7 December 2021
From 12 to 2 PM
Conference room of the Data Science Center (stairs B, 3rd floor)
ENS-PSL
45 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
France
48.8422951, 2.3442717
DHAI Seminar with Matteo Valleriani, Jochen Büttner, Noga Shlomi and Hassan El-Hajj (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
The Sphaera Corpus comprises 359 editions of early modern textbooks on geocentric cosmology. In our presentation we will focus on the visual apparatus of these books, in particular the scientific illustrations (ca. 20.000) contained therein. We present and discuss the deep learning methods by means of which we have been able to extract the illustrations and to analyze them for similarity. This computational analysis is instrumental in our historical research concerned with the evolution of a specific scientific visual language in the early modern period. We in particular aim to achieve a better understanding of the past uses of scientific illustrations as well as of the different ways in which cosmological content was understood, applied, taught, and socially conceived in the early modern period.
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 7 from 12:15-2:00pm (Paris time)
Location: Center for Data Sciences conference room at the ENS (45 rue d’Ulm, stairway B, 3rd floor)
Zoom : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/96966157448?pwd=TzRmNHJCTWplZCtyTFVjREFtUExzdz09
Meeting ID: 969 6615 7448
Passcode: qHxQ9n
Tuesday 7 December 2021
