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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

7/1/2006 - 5/31/2007

Funding Totals

$40,000.00 (approved)
$40,000.00 (awarded)

Vision, Optics, and Experimental Traditions in the Renaissance

FAIN: FA-52720-06

Robert D. Goulding
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)

This project investigates competing narratives of light and vision in Europe in the period 1500-1700. Alongside the scholarly practices of mathematical optics, it considers the influence of magical experiment books and the effects of the early popularization of science.