astronomy

Kim H. Veltman

Kim H. Veltman is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kim H. Veltman rather than just read about it. In short: Kim (Keimpe) Henry Veltman (5 September 1948 – 1 April 2020) was a Dutch-Canadian historian, consultant and author who was director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI). He is known for his contributions in the fields of "linear perspective and the visual dimensions of science and art," new media, culture and society.

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Reference excerpt

Kim (Keimpe) Henry Veltman (5 September 1948 – 1 April 2020) was a Dutch-Canadian historian, consultant and author who was director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI). He is known for his contributions in the fields of "linear perspective and the visual dimensions of science and art," new media, culture and society.

Biography Born in Workum in Friesland, Veltman emigrated with his family in 1951, where he obtained Canadian citizenship. Veltman obtained his BA in history at York University in Toronto in 1969, where in 1970 he also obtained his MA in renaissance history. In 1975 he received his PhD in history and philosophy of science at the Warburg Institute in London, where he had received education from B.A.R. Carter, Alistair Cameron Crombie, Ernst Gombrich, A.I. Sabra, and Charles B. Schmitt. After his graduation and some years in research and in industry as a post-doctoral fellow, he started as Assistant Professor and Canada Research Fellow at the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1990 to 1995 he was director of the Perspective Unit of the McLuhan Program at the Faculty of Education of the University of Toronto. In 1998 he moved to Maastricht, where he became director of Maastricht McLuhan Institute. Since 2006 he was Scientific Director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute. Over the years he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen in 1983–84; at the University of Siena in 1991; at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1992; at the Università di Roma II in 1995; and at Carleton University in 1994–96.

In July 2017, he was a keynote speaker at the EVA London 2017 Conference. Veltman died of COVID-19 in 2020. The EVA London 2020 Conference proceedings was dedicated to his memory, including a eulogy by his colleague Carl Smith and others.

Work

Studies on Leonardo da Vinci I, 1986 In his 1986 book "Studies on Leonardo da Vinci I: Linear Perspective and the Visual Dimensions of Science and Art," Veltman gave a new evaluation of the work of Leonardo da Vinci by focusing upon "Leonardo's visual as opposed to his verbal statements."

Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute The Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI) is an institute for new media, named after Marshall McLuhan. The institute was founded in 1998 as Maastricht McLuhan Institute, and renamed to 2004. The institute explores the "historical effects of new media on the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) - or the arts and sciences - and implications for those effects on knowledge and culture then and today. VMMI proposes to continue these explorations, with a new focus: Knowledge Organization and Cultural Computing."

Selected publications Veltman, Kim H.; Keele, Kenneth David (1986), Studies on Leonardo da Vinci I: Linear perspective and the visual dimensions of science and art, vol. 1, Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN 978-3422007734 Veltman, Kim H. (2006), Understanding new media: augmented knowledge & culture, University of Calgary Press, ISBN 978-1552381540 Veltman, Kim H (1986), Perspective, anamorphosis and vision (PDF), Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, retrieved 7 September 2015 Kim H. Veltman (1997), "Frontiers in Electronic Media" (PDF), Interactions Journal of the ACM, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016, retrieved 7 September 2015 Veltman, Kim H. (2001), "Syntactic and semantic interoperability: new approaches to knowledge and the semantic web" (PDF), New Review of Information Networking, 7: 159–183, doi:10.1080/13614570109516975, S2CID 10544290, retrieved 7 September 2015 Veltman, Kim H. (2006), "Towards a semantic web for culture", Journal of Digital Information 4.4, retrieved 7 September 2015 Veltman, Kim H. (2014), "Alphabets of Life", retrieved 29 August 2020

References

External links

Kim H. Veltman at sumscorp.com

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kim H. Veltman

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kim H. Veltman ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kim H. Veltman

In research: Kim H. Veltman appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kim H. Veltman in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kim H. Veltman is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1948 births, 2020 deaths, 20th-century Canadian historians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kim H. Veltman outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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