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This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics. Della Porta's groundbreaking book, Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), includes a prototype of the camera. Yet, because of his obsession with magic, Della Porta's scientific achievements are often forgotten. As the contributors argue, his work inspired such great minds as Johanes Kepler and Francis Bacon. After reading this book, researchers, historians, and students will have a better appreciation of this influential scientist. They will also gain a greater understanding of an important period in the history of optics. Readers will learn about Della Porta's experimental method, a process governed by the protocols, aims, and theoretical assumptions of natural magic. Coverage also discusses the material properties and limitations of optical technology in the early 17th century, based on a recently discovered Dutch spyglass. It also demonstrates how diagrams were instrumental in the discovery of the sine law of refraction. In addition, the book includes an in-depth analysis of previously untranslated Latin sources. This makes the material useful to historians of optics unfamiliar with the language. More than 70 illustrations complement the text.

History. --- History of Science. --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Porta, Giambattista della, --- Annals --- Della Porta, Giambattista, --- Porta, Iean Baptiste, --- Porta, J. B. --- Porta, Jean-Batiste, --- Porta, Ioannes Baptista, --- Porta, Joannes Baptista, --- Porta, Iogann Baptist della, --- Porta, Giovanni Battista della, --- Porta, Gio. Battista dalla --- Porta, Io. Baptista --- Porta, Giovanbattista della, --- Porta, Johann Baptista, --- Porta, Giovambattista dalla, --- Porta, John Baptista, --- Porta, G. B. della --- Porta, Giovan Battista della, --- Della Porta, Giovan Battista, --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Optics. --- Electrodynamics. --- Dynamics --- Physics --- Light

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Als begehbares, immersives Modell des Kosmos gewährte das Projektionsplanetarium zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals die Erfahrung einer vollkommen technisch durchdrungenen Natur. In den Jahren 1919 bis 1925 wurde in den Jenaer Zeiss-Werken ein kuppelförmiges Gebäude erfunden, das für seine Besucher den natürlichen Eindruck von Fixsternen und Planeten aus einer Projektion von Lichtpunkten und einer komplexen Überlagerung von Drehbewegungen hervorgehen ließ: das Projektionsplanetarium. Damit trat der entgötterte und in seinen Erscheinungen allein den Gesetzen von Newtons Mechanik folgende Sternenhimmel, an dem die Transzendentalphilosophie Kants die Autonomie des Erkenntnissubjekts exemplifiziert hatte, ins Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit ein. Als Simulation des raum-zeitlichen Umweltbezugs des Menschen wurde das Projektionsplanetarium zu einem Ort, an dem mitten im städtischen Alltag Natur als Produkt medialer Prozesse hervortrat und zugleich ästhetisch der Übergang in neue technische Umwelten eingeübt werden konnte.

Kuppel --- Immersion --- Bildgeschichte --- Astronautentraining --- Kuppelarchitektur --- Projektion --- Photogrammetrie --- Navigation --- Simulation