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Insights of genius : imagery and creativity in science and art / Arthur I. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.Edition: 1st MIT Press pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xxii, 482 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262287340
  • 026228734X
  • 058529609X
  • 9780585296098
  • 0262631997
  • 9780262631990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Insights of genius.DDC classification:
  • 530/.01 21
LOC classification:
  • QC6 .M44 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Common Sense and Scientific Intuition; 2 The Intuition of Atoms; 3 Scientific Methods; 4 Faith in an Ordered Universe; 5 Speaking Realistically About Science; 6 The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics; 7 Scientific Progress and Metaphors; 8 Visual Imagery in Scientific Thought; 9 Scientific Creativity; 10 Art, Science, and the History of Ideas; Conclusion; Photo Credits; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: "How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing in all it's many forms - insight, revelation, a distinctive point of view - is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible"--Page 4 of cover.
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Originally published: New York : Copernicus, �1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing in all it's many forms - insight, revelation, a distinctive point of view - is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible"--Page 4 of cover.

Print version record.

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Common Sense and Scientific Intuition; 2 The Intuition of Atoms; 3 Scientific Methods; 4 Faith in an Ordered Universe; 5 Speaking Realistically About Science; 6 The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics; 7 Scientific Progress and Metaphors; 8 Visual Imagery in Scientific Thought; 9 Scientific Creativity; 10 Art, Science, and the History of Ideas; Conclusion; Photo Credits; Bibliography; Index.

English.

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