Grab Instantly The Poetry And Music Of Science: Comparing Creativity In Science And Art Written And Illustrated By Tom McLeish Presented As Ebook

like the content. I like the boldness of the material, e, g. discussing the fluctuationdissipation theorem. The only problem is that the writing style while it might be acceptable or even admired by artists or academics is alienating to scientists.
Adjectives are sprinkled everywhere like weeds and most sentences could be edited to be simpler and to the point, I would love something more scientist friendly so that I could share with my colleagues, 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.

OUP link: sitelink oup. com/academic/produ I might write a review at some point, not sure, This book I've been reading it for a long time because I accidentally left it in Cambridge for half a year is part of what's inspired a project of mine I have no idea what form this project is going to take yet, but I'm really excited about it, so I'm extremely grateful for this book! Sorry this is all very vague, I should be asleep right now, will perhaps write something more coherent at a more normal time of day DNF Tom McLeish is Professor of Physics and Pro Vice

Chancellor for Research at Durham University, following former academic positions at Cambridge, Sheffield and Leeds.
He has won awards for his research on the molecular theory of complex fluid flow, and currently works on applications of physics to biology, and topics in science policy and history.
He is also involved in science communication via radio, TV and schools lectures, He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and the Royal Society.
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