Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light"Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughout history. Provicative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science––and an exhilarating history of ideas." -- Amazon.com viewed November 16, 2020. |
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... gravity . Newton's formulation of gravitational action - at - a - distance became the basis for field theory . Though Newton went on to make a whole series of other impressive discoveries , the apple story immediately captured the ...
... gravity . Newton's formulation of gravitational action - at - a - distance became the basis for field theory . Though Newton went on to make a whole series of other impressive discoveries , the apple story immediately captured the ...
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... gravity , these levitating figures began to come down to earth . Artists became determined to portray the world realistically . Most abandoned floating figures and introduced gravity's laws into their works before Newton had even ...
... gravity , these levitating figures began to come down to earth . Artists became determined to portray the world realistically . Most abandoned floating figures and introduced gravity's laws into their works before Newton had even ...
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... gravity . While acrobats have been part of Western culture since antiquity , they had not been the subject of art for two thousand years except on rare occasions . Yet , they appeared in art in abundance shortly before the physicists ...
... gravity . While acrobats have been part of Western culture since antiquity , they had not been the subject of art for two thousand years except on rare occasions . Yet , they appeared in art in abundance shortly before the physicists ...
Contents
Illusion Reality | 15 |
Classical Art Ideal Philosophy | 28 |
Sacred Profane | 38 |
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