Overview
"How can 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 19th and 20th 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."
Full Product Details
Author: Arthur I. Miller
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780262631990
ISBN 10: 0262631997
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 28 February 2000
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
""" Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject."" John D. Barrow , Times Higher Education Supplement""... the best discussion of creativity I have come across."" Rudolf Arnheim , Journal of Aesthetic Education "" Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject."" John D. Barrow , Times Higher Education Supplement ""... the best discussion of creativity I have come across."" Rudolf Arnheim , Journal of Aesthetic Education"
Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject. --John D. Barrow, Times Higher Education Supplement ... the best discussion of creativity I have come across. --Rudolf Arnheim, Journal of Aesthetic Education
Author Information
Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.
