From Art to Science: Seventy-Two Objects Illustrating the Nature of Discovery

by Cyril Stanley Smith

This catalog is based on the exhibit, "Aspects of Art and Science," held at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology and MIT's Compton Gallery in the summer and fall of 1978. It illustrates and discusses 72 objects and rare books from museums and private collections in the United States and Great Britain. These include art masterpieces, workaday objects, pieces associated with major scientific figures and long-extinct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262191814
• ISBN13: 9780262191814
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.