Book ID: CBB000075175

The elusive synthesis: Aesthetics and science (1996)

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Tauber, Alfred I. (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: viii + 319 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Kohn, David: The aesthetic construction of Darwin's theory. Root-Bernstein, Robert S.: The sciences and arts share a common creative aesthetic. Holmes, Frederic L.: Beautiful experiments in the life sciences. Lynch, Michael, Edgerton, Samuel Y., Jr.: Abstract painting and astronomical image processing. Gilbert, Scott F., Faber, Marion: Looking at embryos: The visual and conceptual aesthetics of emerging form. Sarkar, Sahotra: Form and function in the molecularization of biology. McAllister, James W.: Scientists' aesthetic preference among theories: Conservative factors in revolutionary crises. Margolis, Joseph: Objectivity: False leads from T.S. Kuhn on the role of the aesthetic in the sciences. Chernyak, Leon. Kazhdan, David: Kant and the aesthetic-expressive vision of mathematics. Chevalley, Catherine: Physics as an art: The German tradition and the symbolic turn in philosophy, history of art and natural science in the 1920s. Faxon, Alicia Craig: Intersections of art and science to create aesthetic perception: The problem of postmodernism. Hein, Hilde: The art of displaying science: Museum exhibitions. Tauber, Alfred I.: From Descartes' dream to Husserl's nightmare.


Reviewed By

Review Jardine, N. (1997) Review of "The elusive synthesis: Aesthetics and science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 747-48). unapi

Review Shea, W. (1997) Review of "The elusive synthesis: Aesthetics and science". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 46-47). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Kohn, David (1996) The aesthetic construction of Darwin's theory. In: The elusive synthesis: Aesthetics and science (p. 13). unapi

Chapter Chernyak, Leon; Kazhdan, David (1996) Kant and the aesthetic-expressive vision of mathematics. In: The elusive synthesis: Aesthetics and science (p. 203). unapi

Chapter Chevalley, Catherine (1996) Physics as an art: The German tradition and the symbolic turn in philosophy, history of art and natural science in the 1920s. In: The elusive synthesis: Aesthetics and science (p. 227). unapi

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