{"product_id":"deep-affinities-9780789213785","title":"Deep Affinities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn illustrated exploration of the fundamental connections between art and science, from an author who has lived in both worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this thought-provoking book, Philip F. Palmedo, a former physicist who now writes on art, reveals how the two defining enterprises of humankind - art and science - are rooted in certain common instincts, which we might call aesthetic: an appreciation of symmetry, balance, and rhythm; the drive to simplify and abstract natural forms, and to represent them symbolically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalmedo traces these instincts back to a very early time in human history - demonstrating, for example, the level of abstract thinking required to create the stone tools and cave paintings of the Paleolithic - and then forward, to the builders of the Gothic cathedrals, to Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton, to Einstein and Picasso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with more than 125 creations of the genus Homo - from a flint hand axe chipped half a million years ago to the abstractions of Hilma af Klint and the James Webb Space Telescope - Palmedo''s text leaves us with a new appreciation of the instinct for beauty shared by artists and scientists alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865902559575,"sku":"9780789213785","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780789213785.jpg?v=1722276124","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deep-affinities-9780789213785","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}