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Spinoza: Two Grinding Lathes roughly from the Period

kvond wrote 18 hours ago:   A simple, hand-turned lathe (undated as yet): Taken from the Middleburg 400 year anniversary pa … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza, Spinoza's Foci, hevelius, Lathes, Johan Hoewel, Johannes Hevelius, Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio

A Closer Look at the Rijnsburg Lathe

kvond wrote 2 days ago: I am still attempting to assess the documentation and authority of the lens lathe at the Rijnsburg S … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza, Spinoza's Foci, Lenses, lathe, rijnsburg, Spinozahuis, grinding, polishing

How Much were Spinoza's Lenses and Microscopes?

kvond wrote 3 days ago: In the interest of making Spinoza’s lens-grinding, polishing, and telescope and microscope bui … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza, Spinoza's Foci, Lenses, Telescope, Swammerdam, Ruestow, The Microscope and the Dutch Republic, Johan van Musschenbroek

A Conflation of Spinoza Diagrams

kvond wrote 3 days ago: How Spinoza Thought of the Eye, the Lens and The Modes Perhaps this is an irresponsible and trite co … more »

Tags: Descartes, Philosophy, Spinoza, Spinoza's Foci, Causation, Eternity, ethics, immanence, Jelles

RoboDance at EXITE Camp for girls

scientiste wrote 4 days ago: As promised: I discovered this program when I interviewed James Wynne, co-developer of the excimer l … more »

Tags: communication and networking, Education, Engineering, SPIE Professional, Dance, Robot Dance, james wynne, Exite, robotics

A Short History of Early Spherical Microscope Lenses

kvond wrote 5 days ago: Spinoza’s Microscope In view of organizing the possible context for Spinoza’s lense-grin … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza, Spinoza's Foci, Microscope, Huygens, Spherical lenses, Van Leeuwenhoek, Hudde, Borch

Archaeology News

scientiste wrote 5 days ago: First news item: the cave paintings at Lascaux (France) are currently being threatened by mold. One … more »

Tags: Illumination, museum, Biology, Education, Art, Spectral analysis, Music, sound, archaeology

Robots as art

scientiste wrote 6 days ago: In honor of Wall-E being the top-grossing film at the box office this weekend, here is a little piec … more »

Tags: communication and networking, Education, electronic imaging and displays, Ben Burtt, Career, film, I Robot, Matrix, Movie

Good Start for Fiber Optic Cables in 2008

aryajayaprakash wrote 6 days ago: Optical fiber and fiber cable shipments for the first quarter of 2008 hit record levels and crossed … more »

Tags: Fiber Cable Market, fiber optic cable, fiber, Cable Market, Fiber optic cable market trend, demand for OFC, OF cable market, Trends in the market

L'occhiale all'occhio (1660), Primary Source for 17th Century Lens Grinding Techniques

kvond wrote 1 week ago: Carlo Antonio Manzini, astronomer and designer of lens-grinding Machines, wrote his L’occhiale … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza's Foci, L'occhiale all'occhio, 17th Century, Antonio Manzini

Photography exhibition with live camera obscura

scientiste wrote 1 week ago: Only being shown in Connecticut, but a good excuse to get out of the hot weather. A Triple-Header Ce … more »

Tags: electronic imaging and displays, museum, Art, Photography, camera obscura

New Edition of Vector, Univalor's newsletter

Didier Leconte wrote 1 week ago: The June edition of Vector is now available! Everything you want to now about Protein tagging, Dry A … more »

Tags: Medical, Photonic, Vector Newsletter

NewsFlash - new positions available!

mseyfang wrote 1 week ago: Six Postdoctoral Fellowships and one Technician positions have just been advertised. More informatio … more »

Tags: Experimental, Fabrication, fibre, fibreoptics, glass, Lasers, Microstructure, News, Nonlinear

Six Postdoctoral positions

coephotonics wrote 1 week ago: A rare opportunity to join our vibrant team at a time of rapid expansion. Apply for a Postdoctoral F … more »

Tags: Jobs, fibre, fibreoptics, glass, Nonlinear, sensing, Platform, Lasers, Microstructure

Technician

coephotonics wrote 1 week ago: We are seeking a skilled Technical Support Officer to be involved in installing, operating, maintain … more »

Tags: Jobs, fibre, fibreoptics, glass, Nonlinear, sensing, Platform, Lasers, Microstructure

Cheap Tools

dearJ wrote 1 week ago: Dear J- I never fully stated the implied second part of yesterday’s topic, as to the value pro … more »

Tags: Photo, Reviews, stories & lies, Craft, equipment lust, german, laziness, leica, Lenses

art-sci-tech member organization

scientiste wrote 1 week ago: I am just beginning to explore (read: I am neither endorsing or denouncing) the Art & Science … more »

Tags: Biology, Education, museum, Art, ASCI, technology, Non-profit

Van Leeuwenhoek's View of Technology and Spinoza 1 comment

kvond wrote 1 week ago: Part of this process of looking into the lensed conception of Spinoza’s metaphysics is unders … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza, Spinoza's Foci, Van Leeuwenhoek, Lenses, assemblage, microscopes, technology, Specimen

Centre for Poetry and Science

scientiste wrote 1 week ago: I stumbled upon this awhile ago, and with their new web design I almost didn’t recognize it: … more »

Tags: Biology, communication and networking, Education, Liverpool, Poetry, Science


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