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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art

by Arthur I Miller

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ISBN13: 9780262631990
ISBN10: 0262631997
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How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible.Insights of Genius, first published by Copernicus in 1996, explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the age of modern art and modern physics, the book travels through the philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and art history. Insights of Genius discusses intuition, aesthetics, realism, representation, metaphors, and visual imagery. Allied to these concepts are causality, relativity, energy conservation, entropy, the correspondence principle, scientific creativity, and Cubism. Running through the book is the idea that science extends our intuition from common sense to an understanding of a world beyond our perception.

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Explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. The text focuses on the late-19th and 20th centuries, the age of modern art and physics.

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How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge?

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-465) and index.
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juliovelasco, September 22, 2008 (view all comments by juliovelasco)
This is an excelent book that inspires anyone to write more things on the subject.
The author analyzes several aspects of creativity in science . An extensive analysis of Galileo´s ideas on the Pendule. Eistein´s ideas of relativity are also analysed. He starts by the simple ideas louched by observation of physical phenomena , Miller also screens creativity in art: Da Vinci, Picasso have been presented .
What does Creativity consists of, that is the question that A. Miller tries to answer with accuracy.
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ISBN:
9780262631990
Subtitle:
Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
Author:
Miller, Arthur I.
Author:
Miller, Arthur I.
Publisher:
MIT
Location:
Cambridge, Mass. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Science
Subject:
Physics
Subject:
History
Subject:
Genius
Subject:
Creative ability in science.
Subject:
Science -- Methodology.
Subject:
Physics -- Methodology.
Subject:
Physics-General
Copyright:
1996
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Insights of Genius
Publication Date:
20000228
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
from 17
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
504
Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 in
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