Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination Export

@article{citeulike:6066234, abstract = {From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and art illustrates the fundamental role of geometric imagination in innovative findings. Through the analysis of works of various artists and scientists like Plato, Durer, Kepler, Escher, Grisey or the present author, it is shown how the process of creation in science and in the arts rests on aesthetical principles such as symmetry, regular polyhedra, laws of harmonic proportion, tessellations, group theory, etc., as well as beauty, conciseness and emotional approach of the world.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Luminet, J. P.}, citeulike-article-id = {6066234}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0267}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.0267}, day = {2}, eprint = {0911.0267}, keywords = {cosmology, geometry, history-of-science}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2009-11-04 03:40:12}, priority = {3}, title = {Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0267}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6066234 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6066234 N2 - From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and art illustrates the fundamental role of geometric imagination in innovative findings. Through the analysis of works of various artists and scientists like Plato, Durer, Kepler, Escher, Grisey or the present author, it is shown how the process of creation in science and in the arts rests on aesthetical principles such as symmetry, regular polyhedra, laws of harmonic proportion, tessellations, group theory, etc., as well as beauty, conciseness and emotional approach of the world. TI - Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination KW - cosmology KW - geometry KW - history-of-science AU - Luminet, JP PY - 2009/Nov/02/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0267 ER -