A search for structure : selected essays on science, art, and history /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[1981]
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Table of Contents:
- Grain shapes and other metallurgical applications of topology
- The discovery of carbon in steel
- Structure, substructure, and superstructure
- The interpretation of microstructures of metallic artifacts
- Matter versus materials
- The early history of casting, molds, and the science of solidification
- Porcelain and plutonism
- Art, technology, and science
- Metallurgical footnotes to the history of art
- Reflections on technology and the decorative arts in the nineteenth century
- On art, invention, and technology
- Some constructive corrodings
- A highly personal view of science and its history
- Structural hierarchy in science, art, and history.