{"id":3222,"date":"2025-03-21T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/?page_id=3222"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:56:19","slug":"the-bond-and-juncture-of-the-universe-the-perspectival-legacy-of-early-cosmography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/?page_id=3222","title":{"rendered":"Unsubscribe from Universe? yes \/ no.<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abstract: In 1543, two books appeared that changed our view of the universe and of ourselves as humans: Nicolaus Copernicus\u2019 <em>De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium <\/em>and Andreas Vesalius\u2019s <em>De Humani Corporis Fabrica.<\/em> Their publication seems to further an age-old conversation between interior and exterior worlds. Vesalius\u2019s work includes a cross-sectional diagram of a human eye, made in the manner of a \u201ccosmic figuration.\u201d Is this a commentary on geocentricism, which represents the planets and stars from an earthly vantage point? For centuries, since the time of Galen, anatomy had imagined the eyeball as a series of concentric layers, culminating in an often centrally located lens that represents visual perception itself \u2013 a centralised vantage, gazing outward. Other writers of the time employ the eye as a symbol for divine perspective, highlighting the difference between finite and all-seeing vision. Nicholas of Cusa, in his treatise <em>De Visione Dei <\/em>(1453), uses the shifting eyes of a Veronica icon to invoke the creator\u2019s omnivoyant gaze. God was a sphere with centre everywhere and circumference nowhere. Meanwhile, cartographers and painters were grappling with the incompleteness of human vision \u2013 singular, local and prone to deception. Copernicus himself notes that \u201cFor us who are borne by the earth, the sun and the moon pass by, And the stars return on their rounds, and again they drop out of sight.\u201d Such tensions between subjective and objective viewpoints wind their way through the centuries, straight into modern times. Philosopher Hannah Arendt sums it up nicely: \u201cThe great strides of Galileo proved that both the worst fear of human speculation\u2014that our senses might betray us\u2014and its most presumptuous hope\u2014the Archimedean wish for a point outside from which to unlock universal knowledge\u2014could only come true together.\u201d Celestial diagrams and descriptions throughout the ages bear the scars of this anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expected October 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: In 1543, two books appeared that changed our view of the universe and of ourselves as humans: Nicolaus Copernicus\u2019 De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium and Andreas Vesalius\u2019s De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Their publication seems to further an age-old conversation between interior and exterior worlds. Vesalius\u2019s work includes a cross-sectional diagram of a human eye, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1875,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3222\/revisions\/3242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hallockmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}