A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History

Smith, Cyril Stanley

ISBN 10: 0262690829 / ISBN 13: 9780262690829

Edité par Mit Pr, 1983

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History
• Éditeur: Mit Pr
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0262690829
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262690829
• Reliure: paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 44 onces

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Synopsis

These fourteen essays celebrate the necessary unity between aesthetic curiosity and scientific and technological discovery. Drawing on his own experience as a metallurgist and his wide-ranging studies of ancient and modern artifacts, Cyril Smith offers an intriguing and generously illustrated exploration of the relationship between material structure and our sense of beauty.

À propos de l?auteur

Cyril Stanley Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and author of A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History (MIT Press paperback).