Licht

Óscar Loureda (Hrsg.)

In the winter semester 2014/2015 Heidelberg University’s “Studium Generale” covered the subject of light. Dealing with the question “what defines light,“ physicist Rolf Heilmann gives an overview of different concepts that were used to approach the phenomenon of light in the interaction of religion and art, philosophy, natural sciences and technology in the course of centuries. Art scholar Michael Hesse discusses the subject of light from an architectural perspective through the ages as well as in connection with psychologizing of architecture. Matthias Bartelmann from the Centre for Astronomy of Heidelberg University talks about gravitational lensing in the universe and Johann Kreuzer’s lecture deals with light as a metaphor in philosophy.