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Title Categories--on the beauty of physics : essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature / science writer & editor, Emiliano Sefusatti ; collage artist, John Morse ; fine art & literature reviewer, Hilary Thayer Hamann.

Imprint New York, NY : Vernacular Press, c2005.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  530.02 C282 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 276 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Categories ; bk. 1
Note "An H.T. Hamann book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index.
Contents How to use this book -- Introductions -- 1. Acceleration -- Marshall McLuhan's Understanding media -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks -- Suggested readings by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, James Gleick, Daniel Keyes -- 2. Angle -- Hayden White's Tropics of discourse -- Paul Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Suggested reading by Calvin Clawson, Stan Gibilisco, Ian Stewart -- 3. Angular velocity -- Beowulf -- Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent -- Suggested readings by Timothy Ferris, Kingfisher Publications, Scientific American -- 4. Antimatter -- Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters and H.G. Wells' The war of the worlds -- Henri Matisse's Venus -- Suggested readings by Gordon Fraser, Brian Greene -- Suggested film by Joseph McMaster -- 5. Chaos -- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The gulag archipelago -- Paolo Uccello's The battle of San Romano -- Suggested readings by James Gleick, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Briggs -- 6. Color -- Vincent Van Gogh's Dear Theo -- Raphael's Madonna del Granduca -- Suggested readings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Margaret Livingston, Jeanne Heifetz.
7. Electricity -- Benjamin Franklin's The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- John Sloan's The city from Greenwich Village -- Suggested readings by Martin Uman, Paul Horowitz & Winfield HIll, Robert Becker & Gary Selden -- 8. Energy -- Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained -- Gustav Klimt's The kiss -- Suggested readings by Helen Caldicott, Robert March -- 9. Entropy -- Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- Leonardo Da Vinci's The last supper -- Suggested readings by Ian Stewart, Rudolf Arnheim, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, & Matthew Sands -- 10. Equation -- Aristotle's The categories : on interpretation : prior analytics -- Piet Mondrian's Composition in color B. 1917 -- Suggested readings by Richard Friedberg, Albrecht Folsing, Martin Gardner -- 11. Field -- William Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Matisse -- Suggested readings by Roger Penrose, Albert Laszlo Barabasi, Fritjof Capra.
12. Force -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Pablo Picasso's The tragedy -- Suggested readings by I. Bernard Cohen & Richard Westfall, Sir Isaac Newton, T.L. Heath -- 13. Friction -- Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists -- Paul Gauguin's Vairumati -- Suggested readings by Bertrand Russell, David Lind & Scott Sanders, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, Robert Ehrlich -- 14. Gravity -- Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Giotto's The lamentation -- Suggested readings by Steven Weinberg, Alan Lightman, John Archibald Wheeler -- 15. Heat -- Henry David Thoreau's Walden -- Georges de la Tour's The repentant Magdalen -- Suggested readings by Ross Gelbspan, Gino Segre, Hans Christian Von Baeyer -- 16. Image -- Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Woman, native, other and Edward O. Wilson's On human nature -- The falling cow panel by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, & Brian Larkin, Michel Foucault, John Berger -- 17. Light -- The letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Marc Chagall's An angel -- Suggested readings by James Burke, Richard Feynman -- 18. Mass -- Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld's The evolution of physics -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti's Pieta -- Suggested readings by Lewis Mumford, Max Jammer -- Suggested film by Macgillivray Freeman films.
19. Measurement -- Mircea Eliade's "Time and eternity in Indian thought" -- Canaletto's The grand canal from Carita to Bacino di S. Marco -- Suggested readings by Alex Hebra, David Bourg, Lee Smolin, Barry Zimmerman & David Zimmerman -- 20. Momentum -- Lewis Hyde's The gift and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Panel with striding lion by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra -- 21. Motion -- Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged -- Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth symphony -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Lewis Thomas, Howard Zinn, Sir James Jeans -- 22. Orbit -- Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment and Fritjof Capra's The web of life -- Mary Cassatt's The bath -- Suggested readings by Leila Haddad & Alan Cirou, Andrew Mishkin, Adrian Malone -- 23. Particle -- Marcel Proust's Swann's way -- Georges Seurat's A Sunday on la Grande Jatte -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Isaac Asimov, Toby E. Huff -- 24. Position -- Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman -- Alberto Giacometti's Walking man II -- Suggested readings by Dava Sobel, David Rumsey & Edith M. Punt.
25. Power -- John Berger's Ways of seeing and Niccolo Machiavelli's The prince -- Rogier Van Der Weyden's Portrait of a lady -- Suggested readings by Rodney Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barron -- 26. Pressure -- Lewis Mumford's The city in history -- Katsushika Hokusai's The great wave at Kanagawa -- Suggested readings by Craig Hogan, Rachel Carson, Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frederifc Dumas -- 27. Radiation -- Albert Camus' The stranger -- Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening star no. VI -- Suggested readings by Nevil Shute, Erik Barnouw -- Suggested film by Daniel Goldberg -- 28. Reflection -- Alice Miller's The drama of the gifted child and Sir James Jeans' Science & music -- Diego Velazquez's Las meninas -- Suggested readings by Walter Benjamin, Gary Waldman -- 29. Refraction -- Dylan Thomas' Under milk wood -- Annie Mae Young's Blocks and strips -- Suggested readings by Harald Falck-Yttr, Joseph Kasper & Steven Feller, John Alton -- 30. Relativity -- Pablo Picasso's "Picasso speaks" -- Rene Magritte's Two mysteries -- Suggested readings by Albert Einstein, George Gamow.
31. Space-time -- Kahlil Gibran's The prophet and Pablo Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon -- Suggested readings by Janna Levin, Michio Kaku -- Suggested film by Harold Ramis -- 32. Spin -- Antonio Carlo Jobim's Waters of March -- Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with crows -- Suggested readings by Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann -- 33. Torque -- W.E.B. Du Bois' The souls of black folk and Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril -- Suggested readings by Henry Petroski, Thomas Kuhn, K.C. Cole -- 34. Uncertainty -- William Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Maurice Denis' The green trees or Beech trees in Kerduel -- Suggested readings by F. David Peat, Douglas Hofstadter -- 35. Vector -- Homer's The odyssey -- Jacques-Louis David's The death of Marat -- Suggested reading by Julian Barbour, Henry Petroski, Steven Pinker -- 36. Velocity -- Clause Brown's Manchild in the promised land -- Robert Motherwell's No. 7 (from the Basque suit) -- Suggested readings by Edwin Abbott, Peter Hoffman -- Suggested film by Stacy Peralta.
37. Wave -- Dziga Vertov's Kino eye -- Jacob Lawrence's The migration of the Negro, panel 3 -- Suggested readings by Sir James Jeans, George Gamow -- Suggested film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, & Joel Bakan -- 38. Wave/particle duality -- Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters -- Joan Miro's Une etoile caresse le sein d'une negresse (peinture-poeme) -- Suggested readings by Roland Barthes, Ambrose Bierce, Lao Tzu -- 39. Work -- John Ruskin's The lamp of beauty and Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists -- Emile Bernard's The buckwheat harvest -- Suggested readings by Studs Terkel, Charles Panati -- Appendices -- Index.
Subject Physics.
Science and the arts.
Science -- Aesthetics.
Literature and science.
Added Author Hamann, H. T. (Hilary Thayer)
Morse, John.
Sefusatti, Emiliano.
Added Title On the beauty of physics
Essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature
ISBN 0974026638
9780974026633
Standard No. YDXCP 2387963
NZ1 11092176
AU@ 000040651775

 
    
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