Informative piece of video, i've been learning about the western development of the mirror, and how it transformed the way human beings looked at the world. I think you even say it changed our relationship with the world forever, it juggled light, destabilizing vision, which greatly helped the arts. Mirrors made us look at reality in a new way. This is evident in the great portraits of the Renaissance and development of telescopes of which both mirrors gave great significance to. In the west this changed mans vision of himself, which gave us individualism. Mirror are seen as the third eye, which is able to shift and change it's focus and vision, mirrors are used as a great tool of thought. Mirrors changed and developed four major areas:
- Investigation into optics
- Art - as mirrors destabilize the eye, artists such as the Renaissance painted from mirrors which enabled them to understand the mathematics.
- Science - mirrors enabled humans to see into space - as only mirror was successful in the development of powerful telescopes.
- Human conception of themselves. Conceiving of self of separate human being, different from each other, possible could be the effect of the mirror on the western society, individualism, self being separate one from the other. Eastern culture when seeing one's reflection in a mirror did not see self, but thought to have seen through the image into a inter spirit of soul.
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