How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible.Insights of Genius, first published by Copernicus in 1996, explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the age of modern art and modern physics, the book travels through the philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and art history. Insights of Genius discusses intuition, aesthetics, realism, representation, metaphors, and visual imagery. Allied to these concepts are causality, relativity, energy conservation, entropy, the correspondence principle, scientific creativity, and Cubism. Running through the book is the idea that science extends our intuition from common sense to an understanding of a world beyond our perception.
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" Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject." John D. Barrow , Times Higher Education Supplement"... the best discussion of creativity I have come across." Rudolf Arnheim , Journal of Aesthetic Education
" Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject." John D. Barrow , Times Higher Education Supplement "... the best discussion of creativity I have come across." Rudolf Arnheim , Journal of Aesthetic Education
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Arthur I. Miller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Fascinating mix of science history and philosophy.,
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This review is from: Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art (Hardcover)
Whereas the author's main thesis concerns imagery and intuition as they help (or hinder) scientific progress, I liked this book more simply for its historical detail. Also, it was fascinating for his summaries of philosophy of science (and history of philosophy of science). It is not a book for the science phobic but it is not overly technical. One nice feature is that the philosphical issues continue right up to the "science wars" of the 1990's. It is an excellent book for all students of science
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Disappointing read,
This review is from: Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art (Paperback)
As a lay reader of the history of science, I expected this book to provide a cogent study of scientific creativity and its parallels in art. I was very disappointed to find the author jumping from one subject to the next, often repeating his language verbatim. His self-congratulatory tone put me off as well. While I appreciate the careful research that must have gone into a book of such ambition, its failure to achieve clarity and momentum left me frustrated.
5 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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insights not very insightful,
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This review is from: Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art (Paperback)
if you have not yet read this book then please dont becasue it is a complete waste of time. is there no limit to how arrogant a writer can get, the flow is incoherent, consatntly skipping from one subject matter to another without ever clearly explaning any of them. Also related is Einstien and Picasso another Miler book not worth reading at all. This book he claims is the deinitive work on Einstien, but it is not much more than a uncomplete biography which would not even cover the facts needed for a GCSE project. Waste of time! he talks about creativity, no where is it seen in any of these two books
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Common sense tells us that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, that we can catch up with whatever we want by increasing our speed without limit, and that light travels infinitely fast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Albert Einstein, Ernst Mach, Nature Philosophy, Bill Clinton, New York, World War, James Clerk Maxwell, Pablo Picasso, Deep Blue, Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Patent Office, The Critique of Pure Reason, John Richardson, Max Abraham, Max Born, Max Wertheimer, Richard Feynman, William James, Age of Rationalism, Christiaan Huygens, Heinrich Hertz, Immanuel Kant, John Golding, Murray Gell-Mann New!
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Common sense tells us that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, that we can catch up with whatever we want by increasing our speed without limit, and that light travels infinitely fast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Albert Einstein, Ernst Mach, Nature Philosophy, Bill Clinton, New York, World War, James Clerk Maxwell, Pablo Picasso, Deep Blue, Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Patent Office, The Critique of Pure Reason, John Richardson, Max Abraham, Max Born, Max Wertheimer, Richard Feynman, William James, Age of Rationalism, Christiaan Huygens, Heinrich Hertz, Immanuel Kant, John Golding, Murray Gell-Mann New!
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- Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence by Allan Collins in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant on page 189, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Niels Bohr: His Life and Work As Seen by His Friends and Colleagues (Nh Personal Library) by S. Rozental in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 by William James on page 333, and Back Matter
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker on page 235, and Back Matter
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