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一幅伪造的开普勒肖像如何成为标志性图像

物理学史与哲学 2021-09-06 v3 物理教育 科普物理 物理与社会

摘要

数十年来,一幅约翰内斯·开普勒的肖像在职业天文学家、科学与学术机构以及公众中广泛流传。尽管其出处与身份在上世纪初就受到质疑,这幅画作却已达到了标志性地位。我们回顾了它从 1870 年代文献中首次提及,到 1920 年代一位 competent 艺术专家发表却几乎无人知晓的判定——该作品实为十九世纪初的伪造品——的历史。我们将该画作与其他更确凿的肖像并列展示,并推测若其有所依据,可能源自著名的米夏埃尔·梅斯特林生前肖像。这一纠正在当下具有某种紧迫性,因为 2021 年是开普勒诞辰 450 周年。

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引用

@article{arxiv.2108.02213,
  title  = {How a fake Kepler portrait became iconic},
  author = {Steven N. Shore and Václav Pavlík},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02213},
  year   = {2021}
}

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A few minor things were corrected (typos and page citations for the books), another figure was added along with the discussion. We've also added a supplementary note on the public display of the painting at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair. Conclusions are unchanged. To appear in an edited form in Readers' Forum, Physics Today (September 2021)