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Auteur(s) : McLeish, Tom (1962-2023)
Titre(s) : The poetry and music of science [Texte imprimé] : comparing creativity in science and art / Tom McLeish
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-355 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 341-347. Index
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
Sujet(s) : Créativité en sciences
Créativité (éducation)
Sciences et sciences humaines
Littérature et sciences
Indice(s) Dewey :
501.9 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Principes psychologiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198797990. - ISBN 9780198797999 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46857196j
Notice n° :
FRBNF46857196
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Table des matières : Introduction: Creativity and Constraint -- ; Creative Inspiration in Science -- ;
Seeing the Unseen: Visual Imagination and the Unconscious -- ; Experimental Science
and the Art of the Novel -- ; Music and Mathematics-Creating the Sublime -- ; Emotion
and Reason in Scientific Creation -- ; The end of creation.
