Interacting Methods? A Holistic Study of Isaac Newton's Methods. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
'Opticks', and he invented new mathematical tools, such as the differential and integral calculus. ...
Archaeology as an academic discipline studies patterns in past human communities. Data collected during fieldwork, typically excavations and increasingly survey-based projects, is extremely varied in nature, pertaining to all aspects of daily life in the past. In and of itself this primary archaeological evidence is mute. To make matters worse, some of the recovery methods of archaeological evidence are destructive in nature. Therefore, ...
The project aims to study and valorize fifteenth- and sixteenth-century plainchant sources and repertoire, and to research musical life in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands. Five core objectives will be fullfilled: • As a first step towards true valorisation, the sources need unlocking to the academic world and the general public. • Unlocking in isolation is not sufficient. The sources have to be studied and interpreted in both their ...
The project’s beating heart is the transformative potential of material heritage from Northeast Congo, valorising it firstly as a source for advancing scholarly understanding of customary authority in local governance today, and secondly, as a resource for education and community building in a politically fragile region. These goals are intertwined : locals view the loss of ritual objects due to colonial collecting and warfare, and chiefs’ ...
The extent of the visual degradation in Color Field paintings, due to the ageing of (synthetic) materials has been largely overlooked. Since the relevance and meaning of Color Field paintings strongly depend on their specific visual effects, significant visual alterations often imply a loss of the original intentions of the artists. This project wants to thematise the ageing problem in art history and develop a new extensive reconstruction ...
The development of the Camera dome recording infrastructure, its software and related multi-functional database allows fast multiple digital recording under ideal lighting circumstances for objectified publications and full 3D reconstruction as a tool for archival research.
Networking is important, also for an artist in the 19th century. François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869), director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and a neoclassical artist, developed an impressive social network in nascent Belgium. Despite the knowledge we have of Navez’s paintings and his role in supporting the development of a newly forming nation-state through his role as director at the Brussels Academy, we have little knowledge on ...