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CHAIR'S STATEMENT FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENTS COLLOQUIUM CALENDAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PLACEMENT MASTER SCHEDULE UNDERGRADUATE BULLETIN GRADUATE BULLETIN ACADEMIC CALENDARS USC LIBRARIES CAS COMPUTING & IT USC COMPUTER SERVICES ABOUT COLUMBIA SC RESTRICTED ACCESS: Faculty | Graduate Students Search USC   THIS SITE		COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCES INTERPRETING THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: THE CASE FOR OPTICS   Mark Smith Department of History University of Missouri   October 6, 2006 Friday, 3:30pm-5:30pm Nursing, Room 127   It has long been fashionable among medievalists to approach the transition from medieval to early modern science and its culmination in the so-called Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century in evolutionary rather than revolutionary terms. A particularly compelling example of this approach is David Lindberg's analysis of Kepler's account of retinal imaging, which he reduces to a natural outgrowth of the medieval Perspectivist theory of light and sight. Card-carrying medievalist thought I am (and erstwhile student of Lindberg's to boot), I will contravene his analysis in this paper by showing that, far from evolutionary, the transition from Perspectivist to Keplerian optics was in fact revolutionary in a fundamentally Kuhnian way.
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