Deep affinities art and science

Preface -- The "first artists" -- The origins of art and science -- Movement and music -- Simplicity and abstraction -- The circle and the sphere -- The mathematics of nature -- The artist and the scientist -- The role of art in science -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: The dating game -- Appe...

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1. Verfasser: Palmedo, Philip F. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Abbeville Press Publishers 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:Preface -- The "first artists" -- The origins of art and science -- Movement and music -- Simplicity and abstraction -- The circle and the sphere -- The mathematics of nature -- The artist and the scientist -- The role of art in science -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: The dating game -- Appendix B: The Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio
Palmedo traces these instincts back to a very early time in human history--demonstrating, for example, the level of abstract thinking required to create the stone tools and cave paintings of the Paleolithic--and then forward, to the builders of the Gothic cathedrals, to Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton, to Einstein and Picasso. Illustrated with more than 125 creations of the genus Homo--from a flint hand ax chipped half a million years ago to the abstractions of Hilma af Klint and the James Webb Space Telescope--Palmedo's text leaves us with a new appreciation of the instinct for beauty shared by artists and scientists alike
Beschreibung:192 Seiten
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26 cm
ISBN:9780789213785
978-0-7892-1378-5