Lorentz Dietrichson Lecture 2021

Lorentz Dietrichson Lecture 2021 vil denne gangen gjennomføres i samarbeid med Nasjonalbiblioteket/Kartsenteret. 

Forelesningen er gratis og åpen for alle. Påmelding er ikke nødvendig. Velkommen!

Dr. Surekha Davies: SEA MONSTERS, SENSORY DISTANCE, AND MAPPING NATURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: 

RETHINKING EPISTEMIC IMAGES

Sea monster images on early modern European maps were visual prototypes intended to generate new knowledge about places that were inaccessible to human bodies and instruments. In places of sensory distance (which included worlds viewed through microscopes and telescopes, as well as ocean depths), nature was expected to operate differently and even to produce monstrous creatures. Drawing on Spanish, Italian, German, French, English, and Dutch sources, this paper casts the map as an epistemic multiplier: an image upon which other images sit in ways that are epistemically consequential. By analyzing how maps and their marine animals functioned as epistemic images composed through a process of forensic imagination, one can…