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November 10th, 2008
Most Thumbed
We’ve no ambitions to build a massive bibliography of ( largely unread ) books on the Arts/Science topic; we’re looking for the few which seem to have some special insights or persuasive leverage and which – even in a supposedly shrinking world – may have not yet grabbed our attention.
To start things rolling, here are my own current ‘ Most Thumbed ’ volumes suffering visible wear and tear on my bookshelves.
What Good Are The Arts? John Carey Faber and Faber 2005
Science: A History John Gribbin Penguin 2002
Unweaving The Rainbow Richard Dawkins Penguin 1998
Can Poetry Matter? Dana Gioia Graywolf Press 1992
Essays on Poetry and American Culture
The Hedgehog, The Fox Stephen Jay Gould Three Rivers Press 2003
and the Magister’s Pox
Proust Was a Neuro-Scientist John Lehrer Houghton Mifflin 2007
Art Matters John Tusa Methuen 1999
The Music of Life Denis Noble Oxford U.P. 2006
( Biology Beyond the Genome)
The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler Pan Piper 1964
The Heart of Things A C Grayling Orion Books 2006
(Applying Philosophy to
The 21st Century)
Romantic Natural Histories Ed. Ashton Nichols Houghton 2004
Mifflin
Darwin: A Life in Poems Ruth Padel Chatto&Windus 2009
The Two Cultures: A Second CP Snow Cambridge UP 1963
Look
The Age of Wonder Richard Holmes 2008
Essays on Contemporary Ed. Robert Crawford Oxford U.P. 2006
Poetryand Contemporary Science
Ways of Seeing John Berger Penguin 1972
A Little History of the World EH Gombrich Yale University 2008
Press
Experiment: Conversations Ed. Bergit Arends Wellcome Trust:
In Art and Science & Davina Thackara Sciart Project 2003
RW
September 18th, 2008
Provocative Quotes
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.”
Jonah Lehrer. ‘Proust Was a Neuroscientist’. Houghton Mifflin 2007
“Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.”
(Three case studies : Gutenberg’s invention of printing with moveable types; Kepler’s synthesis of astronomy and physics; Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection).
Arthur Koestler. The Act of Creation. Pan 1964