In the early 19th century, the translation of nature observations into quantified records often intended to convey both epistemologically and aesthetically determined forms of experience. Diverse fields of knowledge such as literature, philosophy, and art as well as natural history, cartography, and microscopy accomplished this demand in a process of mutual exchange and gradual assimilation of ideas and practices. The book investigates the intriguing complexity of this osmotic dynamics, in which various positions on the significance of inner and outer world were continuously exchanged. Practices of Refined Observation. The Conciliation of Experience and Judgement in John Herschel's Discourse and in his Drawings (Erna Fiorentini, Berlin) - Theoretical Change and Visual Depiction. Artists and Geologists on the Isle of Wight in the Early Nineteenth Century (Charlotte Klonk, Berlin) - Cartography, Art and Mimesis. The Imitation of Nature in Land Surveying in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Vladimiro Valerio, Venedig) - The Panorama, or La Nature A Coup d'oeil (Charlotte Bigg, Berlin) - Carl Blechens Naturgemalde (Annik Pietsch, Berlin) - Hans Christian Oersted and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (Nino Zchomelidse, Princeton) - Die Perspektivtheorie Johann Heinrich Lamberts und ihre Rezeption in der Kunst des fruhen 19. Jahrhunderts (Regina Schubert, Berlin) - Estrangement of Vision. Edgar Allan Poe's Optics (John Tresch, Chicago) - Ideal (Geometrical) Types and Epistemologies of Morphology (Bernhard Kleeberg, Berlin) - Describing Landscape - Experiencing Nature. August Wilhelm Schlegel's Conception of 'Selbstthatigkeit' and Aesthetic Judgement (Friedrich Weltzien, Berlin)
