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Art and Scientific Thought : Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism / Martin Johnson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1949]Copyright date: ©1949Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231904148
  • 9780231878623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700
LOC classification:
  • N72.S3 J6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword by Walter de la Mare -- Author’s Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- I. Features of Resemblance and of Contrast between the Arts and the Sciences -- II. Examples of Imaginative Stimulus through Structure and Symbolism -- III. Historical Failure to maintain a Balance between the Scientific and the Imaginative -- IV. Leonardo da Vinci as Scientist in Art: his fantastic Drawings and the Prototype of Scientific Uneasiness in an Unscientific Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Four groups of short studies and discussions around comparing the arts and science, examples of imaginative stimulation in the arts, balancing the scientific and the imaginative, and Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist in art.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231878623

Frontmatter -- Foreword by Walter de la Mare -- Author’s Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- I. Features of Resemblance and of Contrast between the Arts and the Sciences -- II. Examples of Imaginative Stimulus through Structure and Symbolism -- III. Historical Failure to maintain a Balance between the Scientific and the Imaginative -- IV. Leonardo da Vinci as Scientist in Art: his fantastic Drawings and the Prototype of Scientific Uneasiness in an Unscientific Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Four groups of short studies and discussions around comparing the arts and science, examples of imaginative stimulation in the arts, balancing the scientific and the imaginative, and Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist in art.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

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