| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The form of projection -- Projection and providence -- Government of souls -- Projecting property -- Shadows of expectation. |
| Summary |
"The history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period--the camera obscura and the magic lantern--developed in response to, and framed, the era's key intellectual dilemma of whether the world fell under God's providential care, or was subject to chance and open to speculating. As Väliaho shows, camera obscuras and magic lanterns were variously employed to give the world an intelligible and manageable design. Jesuit scholars embraced devices of projection as part of their pursuit of divine government, whilst the Royal Society fellows enlisted them in their quest for empirical knowledge as well as colonial expansion. Projections of light and shadow grew into critical metaphors in early responses to the turbulences of finance. In such instances, Väliaho argues, "projection" became an indispensable cognitive form to both assert providence, and to make sense of an economic reality that was gradually escaping from divine guidance. Drawing on a range of materials--philosophical, scientific and religious literature, visual arts, correspondence, poems, pamphlets, and illustrations--this provocative and inventive work expands our concept of the early media of projection, revealing how they spoke to early modern thinkers, and shaped a new, speculative concept of the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Optical instruments -- History -- 17th century.
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Optical instruments. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Camera obscuras -- History -- 17th century.
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Projectors -- History -- 17th century.
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Projectors. |
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Camera obscuras. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Väliaho, Pasi. Projecting spirits Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 9781503630857 (DLC) 2021043926 |
| ISBN |
9781503631946 electronic book |
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150363194X electronic book |
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9781503630857 hardcover |
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9781503631939 paperback |
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