Ivan Puluj in the UK. While Professor Puluj's finding were essentially X-rays, he did not recognise them as such at first, although he demonstrated X-ray pictures of a hand and fingers obtained by using his tube / lamp to his students. This credit later went on to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Once Roentgen visited Professor Puluj's laboratory and the latter presented one of his tubes to Roentgen. Roentgen went home and in his laboratory started to conduct experiments with Puluj's tube. Puluj also continued to do research with his X-ray tubes. On 8 February 1896, just 6 weeks after Röntgen presented his finding
The Invention of Art The Invention of Art The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (2001) is an art history book by Dr. Larry Shiner (1934- ), Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, History, and Visual Arts at the University of Illinois, Springfield Shiner spent over a decade to finish the work of this book. The book sees fine art as a modern invention due to social transformations during the 18th century. David Clowney, writing for "Contemporary Aesthetics" summarizes the central thesis of this book. "In The Invention of Art: A Cultural History , Larry Shiner claims that Art with a capital A, Fine Art, was