Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 355 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
Edition:
First Edition, reprinted (with corrections)
ISBN:
9780191839306
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
‘I could not see any place in science for my creativity or imagination’, was the explanation, of a bright school leaver to the author, of why she had abandoned all study of science. Yet as any scientist knows, the imagination is essential to the immense task of re-creating a shared model of nature from the scale of the cosmos, through biological complexity, to the smallest subatomic structures. Encounters like that one inspired this book, which takes a journey through the creative process in the arts as well as sciences. Visiting great creative people of the past, it also draws on personal accounts of scientists, artists, mathematicians, writers, and musicians today to explore the commonalities and differences in creation. Tom McLeish finds that the ‘Two Cultures’ division between the arts and the sciences is not after all, the best classification of creative processes, for all creation calls on the power of the imagination within the constraints of form. Instead, the three modes of visual, textual, and abstract imagination have woven the stories of the arts and sciences together, but using different tools. As well as panoramic assessments of creativity, calling on ideas from the ancient world, medieval thought, and twentieth-century philosophy and theology, The Poetry and Music of Science illustrates its emerging story by specific close-up explorations of musical (Schumann), literary (James, Woolf, Goethe) mathematical (Wiles), and scientific (Humboldt, Einstein) creation. The book concludes by asking how creativity contributes to what it means to be human.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 341-347. - Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198797999
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McLeish, Tom, 1962 - The poetry and music of science Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780198797999
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Kreativität
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Kunst
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Wissenschaft
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198797999.001.0001
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