october 2011
'Susceptible Eyes. Science, Spectatorship and Speculation in Nineteenth-Century Renditions of the Moon' is the title of the Master's thesis I wrote at the University of Amsterdam. The thesis considers an analysis of the introduction of photography into (astronomical) science and tries to expose a changing conceptualization of vision, observation and truth in nineteenth-century scientific texts and images.
Hand-drawn reproductions of photographs of the moon:
