11.1Bartisch’s 1583 work on the diseases of the eye.Cf. Essays XIV and XIII, on the crystalline humor.For the past few days, I have been working on a long essay on the anatomy of the eye and the importance of the crystalline humor in early modern elite and popular discourses on sight, but I took some time away from editing to play around with both Flash and a digital edition of George Bartish’s splendid 1583 work on the diseases of the eye, the Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst.
11.2A full-text digital edition of Bartisch’s work with some very high quality scans can be found here courtesy of the Internet Archive.
11.3Bartisch’s woodcut of the eye has moveable flaps.Bartisch, Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst (1583).While I had seen some of the images from the Opthalmodoulia before reproduced in secondary sources, I had never seen a copy of the complete text before today, and, consequently, was unaware that the text also contained a woodcut of ocular anatomy with moveable flaps. Since I have been messing around with Flash to produce a few short videos for #WoodcutWednesday, I decided to try my hand at animating Bartisch’s anatomy of the eye.
11.4What follows are two different animations. The first, an interactive animation, requires a Flash player, and the second, a Youtube video, does not have any interactivity but can be played on any device. Enjoy!
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11.7I hope to have my work on the crystalline humor posted by early next week.
Here endeth the eleventh eſſay of Shaping Sense, called George Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst (1583): Animating the Early Modern Eye. Imprinted by Senseshaper Press at senseshaper.com, firſt ſet forth the ninth day of March, 2013. Free to read, ſhare and cite under CC BY‑NC 4.0. Finis.
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