Deep affinities : art and science /
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 N...
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Abbeville Press Publishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.