electricity for eyes
A short survey of the history of what is known as ‘sensory substitution’:
The purest form of vision through electricity is described by…
Category Archives: books
Kepler on the camera eye
The first description of the retinal image, from Johannes Kepler, “Ad Vitellionem paralipomena quibus Astronomiæ pars optica traditvr”, Francofvrti, Apud Claudium Marnium &…
philosophy through the eye
Reading two very different books simultaneously:
Philippe Hamou, “La Mutation Du Visible, Essai Sur La Portée Epistémologique Des Instruments d’Optique au XVIIe Siècle,…
first ever programmed motion ?
From “Peri Automatopoietikes” (On the making of Automata) by Hero from Alexandria (around the year 50 AD) in the edition by Schmidt from…
philidog, miso and more vehicles
I my cybernetic zoo post of a couple of days ago I was talking about the cybernetic dog made by Philips in 1928,…
a cybernetic zoo
A collection of early cybernetic artificial organisms. The most well-known (and arguably the most interesting) are the tortoises made by Grey Walter around…
one billion years
Another interesting philosophical science-fiction book that was mentioned by Otto Rössler in his ‘Endophysics‘. The title of the english translation is ‘Definitely Maybe,…