VISD-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Montgolfier Brothers, Edward Lear, Electrical Experimenter
13 Oct 2016
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Tying science technical illustration and science fiction illustration together that"s shaped by the same social forces. Royal academy and royal societies are well off individuals, instead of going through universities. Universities started to take up the labour of doing science in 19th century. Natural philosophers were used to described scientist. Micrographia was based on his observations of fossils and other objects from the natural world: first scientific best seller, popularized the idea of mircography. Seeing through the instruments, dissecting the natural worlds. Passed the images to another professional printmakers to make an illustration. The images were things that people at the time have never seen. Telescopic illustrations on top of the other illustrations he already completed. Beginning of scientific illustrations because it"s so revolutionary. The earth always looked the way it did vs. procresses involved that shaped the surfaces. Created a diagram to explain and argue the processes of how the earth continued to evolve into its existing geography.
