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* ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=7D76DC4895FB4FA037A6C6AB2B4EF588&open=0 Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art]'', ed. Nicoletta Misler, Reaktion Books, 2002. [http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/reaktion/display.asp?K=9781861891303]
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===On Florensky===
 
===On Florensky===

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Mikhail Nesterov, Философы [Philosophers], 1917. Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov, painting.
Born January 22, 1882(1882-01-22)
near Yevlakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire (today Azerbaijan)
Died December 8, 1937(1937-12-08) (aged 55)
Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg)

Pavel Florensky (Священник Павел Флоренский, 1882–1937) was a Russian theologian, priest, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and philosopher.

He wrote on art, language, organic chemistry, mysticism, Kant, sculpture, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Aegean culture, arithmetic, idealism, iconography, electromagnetism, microscopy, carbolic acid, asbestos, Pythagorean numbers, Aleksandr Blok, ecclesiology, and a wide variety of other topics. After the revolution he was one of the few intellectuals with conservative views to be permitted to remain professionally active in the country, at least for a time. His training in science made him useful in the early years of the Soviet Union, when he applied his expertise as an electrical engineer to various public-works projects. In Soviet history, until recently the achievement for which Florensky was perhaps best remembered officially in his own country was his invention in 1927 of a noncoagulating machine oil. [1]

Literature

By Florensky

Mnimosti v geometri, 1922. Download.
in Russian
in Italian
  • La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti, ed. Nicoletta Misler, Rome: Casa de Libro, 1983.
in Romanian
in English

On Florensky

Books
Papers, Book chapters, Articles, Blog posts
Theses
  • Elizabeth Cooper English, "Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical -philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition, University of Pennsylvania, 2000. [9]

External links