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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palmedo, Philip F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2020]
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.