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Although Giambattista della Porta had popularized it in the sixteenth century, the first (published) account appeared in Vitruvius' Architecture (1521). "8 Descartes' geometrical vision was thus substantiated by these "pictures" painted on the eye. And many thinkers of the period entertained the notion that in the structure of the eye could be found that intermediary term, the missing link, between cogito and res extensaa "sophisticated" rendition of the Cartesian pineal gland. "9 His famous "closet-simile" recites the place of its inversion (neither-nor/neuter), the legacy to which it has always already Page 11 been dispatched, posted: this "little black tent" (read, instead, its lips: this little black "box") become phallus.

This collusion between (human) being and nature is strikingly evident in Emerson's Nature, where Nature coquettishly acknowledges a human presence in the universe. The essay originally appeared in 1836, and discloses to what extent the stage had been set for its latest technological performance. Like Romanticism, Transcendentalism is largely the product of post-Kantian idealism; and as Romanticism could talk about the truth of nature as a reflection or image of the mind, so too could Transcendentalism speak of a spiritual "insight" based on close observation of nature.

7 Kepler's "little black tent" was, of course, a camera obscura, and it became his visible model for the human eye. Although Giambattista della Porta had popularized it in the sixteenth century, the first (published) account appeared in Vitruvius' Architecture (1521). "8 Descartes' geometrical vision was thus substantiated by these "pictures" painted on the eye. And many thinkers of the period entertained the notion that in the structure of the eye could be found that intermediary term, the missing link, between cogito and res extensaa "sophisticated" rendition of the Cartesian pineal gland.

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