Die Vermessung der Engel

• Autores: Sigrid Weigel
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 70, Nº. 2, 2007, págs. 237-262
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The writer discusses the strange afterlife of angels in the fields of comparative anatomy, physiology, psychology, and cosmology in the 19th century and shows that the sciences not only inherited methods from the arts but that the history of religion also played a role. For 19th-century physiology, for example, the angels evidently represented bodies with which researchers tried, using empirical methods, to shed light on unknown and invisible fields.