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Marek H. Dominiczak

Science, Alchemy and Light: Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby

This article considers two paintings by the English painter, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–97), ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’ and ‘The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone’ as painterly reflections on the early industrial culture. Particularly interesting in the “Experiment on a Bird” is the broad spectrum of spectator's reactions to the experiment; this can be related to the contemporary debate on the contextualization of science.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 40, 01/2002
Pages: 74 - 77

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