{"product_id":"deep-affinities-philip-f-palmedo-9780789213785","title":"Deep Affinities","description":"An illustrated exploration of the fundamental connections between art and science, from an author who has lived in both worlds.\nIn 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.\nPalmedo 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.\nIllustrated 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.","brand":"Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51329069875488,"sku":"9780789213785","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780789213785.jpg?v=1780871441","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/deep-affinities-philip-f-palmedo-9780789213785","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}