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- catalog abstract ""Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of Nature, the world's leading journal for the announcement of scientific discoveries, since 1997. These short, illustrated, highly-regarded essays generally focus on one visual image from art or science and provide an evocative and erudite investigation into shared motifs in the two disciplines. Gathered here together with a delightfully rich introduction by the author, the essays take our understanding to an exciting new level as they transgress the traditional boundaries between art and science."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Nature book of art and science".
- catalog contributor b12286515.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of Nature, the world's leading journal for the announcement of scientific discoveries, since 1997. These short, illustrated, highly-regarded essays generally focus on one visual image from art or science and provide an evocative and erudite investigation into shared motifs in the two disciplines. Gathered here together with a delightfully rich introduction by the author, the essays take our understanding to an exciting new level as they transgress the traditional boundaries between art and science."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Hyde's horrors -- Haeckel's hierarchies -- Akeley's Africa -- Ernst's ego -- pt. 6. Space and time -- Boccioni's ballistics -- Feynman's figurations -- Dali's dimensions -- Bill's bands -- Abbott's absolutes -- Merz's maths -- pt. 7. Making models -- Animal arts -- Albers' abstracts -- Gabo's geometry -- Kendrew constructs; Geis gazes -- Max's modelling -- Visible viruses -- Kroto and charisma -- Julesz's joyfulness -- Mammary models -- pt. 8. New worlds revealed -- Heezen's highlands -- Dendrites from the deep -- Turrell's tunnelling -- Venus' voyeurs -- Lane's landscapes -- pt. 9. Process and pattern -- Metzger's mission -- Parker's pieces -- Callan's canyons -- Cementing relationships (by Ian Stewart) -- Derges' designs -- Onwin's holistics -- De Vries' varieties -- Hesse-Honegger's handwork -- Goldsworthy's genera -- Latham's life-forms -- Attractive attractors -- pt. 10.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-195) and index.".
- catalog description "People, places, and publications -- Icons of intellect -- Laudable labs? -- Noticing Nature.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Microcosms -- Lisa's laws -- Durer's diagnoses -- Cycling the cosmos -- Palissy's philosophical pots -- Vincian velcro -- Vesalius' veracity -- Babes in bottles -- pt. 2. Spatial visions -- Basically Brunelleschian -- Piero's perspective -- Vermeer's vision -- Saenredam's shapes -- Kepler's cosmos -- Cartesian contrivances -- Maculate moons -- Hooke's housefly -- pt. 3. Nature on the move -- Merian's metamorphoses -- Sexy stamens and provocative pistils -- Stubbs' seeing -- Audubon in action -- Wright's ruptions -- Turner's trinity -- pt. 4. Graphic precisions -- Monge's maths; Hummel's highlights -- Modelled moons -- Lucid looking -- Wheatstone's waves -- Mendeleev's matrix or 'Telling tables' -- Gray's greyness -- Graphic gropings -- Rontgen's rays -- Boys' bubbles -- Stilled splashes -- pt. 5. Man and beast -- Shelley's shocks -- Slanted statistics -- Fremiet's frenzy --".
- catalog extent "xii, 202 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520223527".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "701/.05 21".
- catalog subject "Art and science.".
- catalog subject "NX180.S3 K44 2000".
- catalog subject "Science and the arts.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Hyde's horrors -- Haeckel's hierarchies -- Akeley's Africa -- Ernst's ego -- pt. 6. Space and time -- Boccioni's ballistics -- Feynman's figurations -- Dali's dimensions -- Bill's bands -- Abbott's absolutes -- Merz's maths -- pt. 7. Making models -- Animal arts -- Albers' abstracts -- Gabo's geometry -- Kendrew constructs; Geis gazes -- Max's modelling -- Visible viruses -- Kroto and charisma -- Julesz's joyfulness -- Mammary models -- pt. 8. New worlds revealed -- Heezen's highlands -- Dendrites from the deep -- Turrell's tunnelling -- Venus' voyeurs -- Lane's landscapes -- pt. 9. Process and pattern -- Metzger's mission -- Parker's pieces -- Callan's canyons -- Cementing relationships (by Ian Stewart) -- Derges' designs -- Onwin's holistics -- De Vries' varieties -- Hesse-Honegger's handwork -- Goldsworthy's genera -- Latham's life-forms -- Attractive attractors -- pt. 10.".
- catalog tableOfContents "People, places, and publications -- Icons of intellect -- Laudable labs? -- Noticing Nature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Microcosms -- Lisa's laws -- Durer's diagnoses -- Cycling the cosmos -- Palissy's philosophical pots -- Vincian velcro -- Vesalius' veracity -- Babes in bottles -- pt. 2. Spatial visions -- Basically Brunelleschian -- Piero's perspective -- Vermeer's vision -- Saenredam's shapes -- Kepler's cosmos -- Cartesian contrivances -- Maculate moons -- Hooke's housefly -- pt. 3. Nature on the move -- Merian's metamorphoses -- Sexy stamens and provocative pistils -- Stubbs' seeing -- Audubon in action -- Wright's ruptions -- Turner's trinity -- pt. 4. Graphic precisions -- Monge's maths; Hummel's highlights -- Modelled moons -- Lucid looking -- Wheatstone's waves -- Mendeleev's matrix or 'Telling tables' -- Gray's greyness -- Graphic gropings -- Rontgen's rays -- Boys' bubbles -- Stilled splashes -- pt. 5. Man and beast -- Shelley's shocks -- Slanted statistics -- Fremiet's frenzy --".
- catalog title "Nature book of art and science".
- catalog title "Visualizations : the nature book of art and science / Martin Kemp.".
- catalog type "Essays. lcgft".
- catalog type "text".