CALL FOR PAPERS - SYNAESTHESIA/APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS - SYNESTHESIE
CALL FOR PAPERS – International bilingual conference (English/French) INTERFACES DIJON JUNE 25-27 2014 - JOINED SENSES – synaesthesia in texts and imagesSynaesthesia is a recognized neurological...
View ArticleREPRESENTING NATURE/REPRESENTER LA NATURE
A series of seminars on the representation of nature, organised by Martial Guédron et Isabelle Laboulais has started in Strasbourg. There will be monthly meetings around different views of nature....
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CALL FOR PAPERS IAWIS 2014 DUNDEE/APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS IAWIS 2014 DUNDEE
Twenty-eight different workshops are planned for the next IAWIS conferenceRiddles of Form due to take place in Dundee next August. The deadline to apply is Novembre 15th. There are sessions dedicated...
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PASCAL'S TRIANGLE AND FIBONACCI SEQUENCE/LE TRIANGLE DE PASCAL ET LA SUITE DE...
Fibonacci was a thirteenth-century Italian mathematician who contributed to the introduction of Arabic mathematics into the West in Liber Abaci (1202). The sequence of numbers named after him is easy...
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A SEMINAR ON COLOUR/JOURNEE D'ETUDE SUR LA COULEUR
A fascinating seminar on colour is going to be held in Strasburg on Friday November 29th. Four participants will tackle the issue of colour codes and colour reality. Valérie Chansigaud will give a talk...
View ArticleTHE GALERIE BOTANIQUE OF THE PARIS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM/LA GALERIE...
The Paris Natural History Museum boasts a collection of 8 million plant specimens - apparently the bigggest in the world - dating back to the seventeenth century, and even before, and sometimes...
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NEWS FROM KEW/DES NOUVELLES DE KEW
Following on my last post, I thought I would have a look at Kew Gardens' herbarium. There are interesting bits of information on their site, about plants, biodiversity, etc. I found the herbarium has 7...
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MCEWEN, LINDLEY, CATTLEY, PROUST...
One thing leads to another. Finding that Rory McEwen was related to John Lindley, I tried to find out more about Lindley's pictures of flowers. Lindley (1799-1865) contributed to the classification of...
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BIRD MIGRATION/MIGRATIONS DES OISEAUX
I heard yesterday that a duck ringed in France was killed in St-Petersburg, and it set me wondering about how people represent bird migration routes on maps. Looking for information this morning, I...
View ArticlePEUT-ON ILLUSTRER LE THEOREME DE CANTOR?/CAN ONE GIVE AN ILLUSTRATION OF...
Une chronique du mathématicien Etienne Klein ce matin à France-Culture me fait me poser la question de l'illustration de l'infini. Au dix-neuvième siècle, George Cantor a démontré qu'il y avait autant...
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VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION/LES VESTIGES DE L'HISTOIRE...
In 1844, Robert Chambers, a Scottish journalist (1802-1871) published anonymously the book entitled Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. I am reading it at the moment. Though it is a book which...
View ArticleTEXTIMAGE
I am very pleased to announce that the online paper, Textimage, has agreed to publish some of the papers from our seminar series, in the spring of 2015. I have added a link to their page on the left....
View ArticleOCEANIA/L'OCEANIE
I would like to announce Bronwen Douglas's new book Science, Voyages and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 (Palgrave). The book has maps and illustrations, it has a chapter on phrenology which must...
View ArticleA NEW APP ON ALBINUS/UNE NOUVELLE APPLI POUR ALBINUS
The Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), which includes colleges from Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and welcomes students in visual and musical arts and illustrations, has produced an astonishing app for...
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WHAT'S HIDDEN AND WHAT'S VISIBLE/CE QUI EST CACHE ET CE QUI EST VISIBLE
What science seems to do most of the time is uncover hidden structures behind what we see, and telling us this is the reality piloting and guiding the visible aspect of things and creatures. Of course,...
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ILLUSTRATOR/ILLUSTRATEUR
Patryck Vaucoulon is a biology teacher and talented illustrator, who specialises in very detailed artistic/scientific plates of plants and animals, and also of large landscape views featuring...
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GEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS/LES IDEES GEOGRAPHIQUES DE...
I have been reading an unpretentious, but very informative book on Christopher Columbus, written by Marianne Mahn-Lot, published in the Seuil Microcosme series, Le temps qui court, in 1960 - apparently...
View ArticleOLD MAPS/ANCIENNES CARTES
Following my previous post on Columbus, I have found a wonderful site from which to view (and even download, if you have the right software) all kinds of old maps. It opens onto a representation of the...
View ArticleIMAGES ON THE INTERNET AND COPYRIGHT/IMAGES SUR INTERNET ET DROITS D'AUTEURS
Juste a short post to stress that I shall in the future provide a link to sites from which I take images, not only providing their names, but also a direct link to them. It requires little discipline,...
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WORD AND IMAGE CONFERENCE/COLLOQUE TEXTE-IMAGE
Here is the poster for our forthcoming conference on word and image in Dijon. The theme, "Synaesthesia", is going to lead to interesting discussions on word and image interaction. Artist Haydn Cornner...
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