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The Poetry and Music of Science - Comparing Creativity in Science and Art (Hardcover)
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The Poetry and Music of Science - Comparing Creativity in Science and Art (Hardcover)
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What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and
which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and
'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book
challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less
creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and
treads a historical and contemporary path through common
territories of the creative process. The methodological process
called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we
have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first
place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about
their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the
experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the
problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the
beautiful or sublime. Selected themes weave the practice of science
and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence
of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English
novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and
desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient
comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and
Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval
philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent
time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is
mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the
rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within
constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of
poetry.
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