Insights of genius : imagery and creativity in science and art / Arthur I. Miller.

  • Miller, Arthur I.
Date:
[1996], ©1996
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Publication/Creation

New York, NY : Copernicus, [1996], ©1996.

Physical description

xxii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Couuts

Contents

Common sense and scientific intuition -- The intuition of atoms -- Scientific methods -- Faith in an ordered universe -- Speaking realistically about science -- The reasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics -- Scientific progress and metaphors -- Visual imagery in scientific thought -- Scientific creativity -- Art, science, and the history of ideas.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 447-465) and index

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    History of Medicine
    AAB /MIL
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  • 0387946713
  • 0387947728