*SUSCEPTIBLE EYES

*I HAVE NEVER SEEN VOLCANOES

*PRINCE CLAUS FUND READER

*FINDING THE LOCAL

*SKRIPT

*SMART PAPERS

 

 

SIRI DRIESSEN

 

*NEWS

*TEXTS

*PROJECTS

*INFO

'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: