Yeah; I’d actually call that a pretty interesting mistake, especially because it’s so ridiculous—I don’t see how it could happen unless you basically just ignored the actual art and the history in favor of some half-baked notion of “the fourth dimension is time”. While I can’t claim to have ever paid attention to art history, a mistake like that makes me wonder just how much actual history art historians are doing. Unfortunately while Ritchie understands this is a mistake, he doesn’t seem to have worked through the confusion to the point of being able to present it in a way that’s really correct...
I guess it’s not a different topic after all, as I originally said, just the same topic applied to a different discipline. I thought it was a different topic because he writes it as if he were going off on a tangent.
I’m not sure that it is that large a mistake. It seems that the mistake is that they weren’t influenced by time as a fourth dimension but by the pre-Einsteinian idea of more than 3 spatial dimensions. If that’s what Ritchie is saying then the problem might have been subtle to someone who didn’t know much math or physics. I don’t think that understanding this is helped by Ritchie’s writing style.
Yeah; I’d actually call that a pretty interesting mistake, especially because it’s so ridiculous—I don’t see how it could happen unless you basically just ignored the actual art and the history in favor of some half-baked notion of “the fourth dimension is time”. While I can’t claim to have ever paid attention to art history, a mistake like that makes me wonder just how much actual history art historians are doing. Unfortunately while Ritchie understands this is a mistake, he doesn’t seem to have worked through the confusion to the point of being able to present it in a way that’s really correct...
I guess it’s not a different topic after all, as I originally said, just the same topic applied to a different discipline. I thought it was a different topic because he writes it as if he were going off on a tangent.
I’m not sure that it is that large a mistake. It seems that the mistake is that they weren’t influenced by time as a fourth dimension but by the pre-Einsteinian idea of more than 3 spatial dimensions. If that’s what Ritchie is saying then the problem might have been subtle to someone who didn’t know much math or physics. I don’t think that understanding this is helped by Ritchie’s writing style.