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Confronted with a scientific text, the historian of science tries to define its signification, the epistemologist its theoretical status. 'Poetics'... proposes another approach. It studies the work of a scientist as an event embedded in a wider field of images, symbols, texts and practices. Scientific imagination is not fundamentally different from a mythic or poetic imagination... Closely related notions of harmony, symmetry and proportion inform cosmology as well as music and painting. This book offers the first comprehensive, full-scale study of these relations. --The Philosopher's index

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Fernand Hallyn is a Professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Ghent.

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