- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag (May 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0387947728
- ISBN-13: 978-0387947723
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,523,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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" Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject." John D. Barrow , Times Higher Education Supplement"... the best discussion of creativity I have come across." Rudolf Arnheim , Journal of Aesthetic Education " Insights of Genius is one of very few books to make a serious attempt to place scientific imagery into a wider context alongside creative activities in the visual and linguistic arts. It provides a lucid and fluently written beginning to a huge subject." John D. Barrow , Times Higher Education Supplement "... the best discussion of creativity I have come across." Rudolf Arnheim , Journal of Aesthetic Education
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How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible.Insights of Genius, first published by Copernicus in 1996, explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the age of modern art and modern physics, the book travels through the philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and art history. Insights of Genius discusses intuition, aesthetics, realism, representation, metaphors, and visual imagery. Allied to these concepts are causality, relativity, energy conservation, entropy, the correspondence principle, scientific creativity, and Cubism. Running through the book is the idea that science extends our intuition from common sense to an understanding of a world beyond our perception.
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Common sense tells us that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, that we can catch up with whatever we want by increasing our speed without limit, and that light travels infinitely fast. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book a revelation. It's one of the best things I've read on the role of visual thinking in science--especially in Einstein's work, a subject on which Miller is probably the world's leading expert. If you want to understand something about why quantum theory seemed so unimaginably foreign for much of the twentieth century, and why Feynman's contribution is so important, this is the book to read. But it is not for the unsophisticated. Speaking of which, of the preceding reviews I will say only that talent recognizes genius, but mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself. Miller knows something about genius.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The main problem with this book is organisation of ideas. Because of this, you will be hard pressed to understand what Arthur I. Miller is really trying to tell us. One moment, he is discussing atoms, then he talks about quantum theory, then about Galileo's thought experiments, then about Einstein's Relativity, and then about how our brains process information. There is no coherence in discussion but topics are brought up randomly only to be replaced by equally random topics. Just when you thought discussion on quantum theory is over and done with, this topic comes up again in later chapters, and the cycle of random topics start again. Consequently, I really had a hard time trying to piece together different ideas discussed in this book. It is almost as if Arthur I. Miller drops all the facts at once on your desk and leaves you to sort out what the facts mean.
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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The key flaw of this book is held within it's title. to offer insite on genius is a massive task and one that should have been taken a little more cautiously in my view.
Miller is clearly most comfortable in the regurgitation of theories and in this he is relatively sucessfull however a analysis of those theories would have been appreciated.
The Real problems start when Miller (...) tries to offer his own views on the scentists and artists regarded here.
Miller is clearly defined by his background in physics. I would however guess he is from the historical appreciation rather than practice(either theoretical or practical) and this is brough out by his rather 'pop science' approach to the ideas expoused within.
Instead of following the progression of theory he instead covers this with the view that it takes a great deal of work to be a geneous and that there may be some ill defined spark.
Worse yet the understanding of the theories discussed seems to lack judgement and connection between theory...
Phsycology it would seem would have more answer to the questions he poses and this is where the next failing is shown. Miller... is forced to limmit his insight to his reading which is in turn limmited in scope (as is his appreciation of Aesthetics, Art History, Mathematics) and you often get the feeling he would have been better off restricting his works to a strict history of science with no movement towards interpretation of theory.
This is not to say the book has no worth, there are few books with the ego to cover the topics held here. However I would recomend any reader intrested first understand the scientific theories and then read books on phsycology to fill in the rest, in my opinion Miller offers nothing over a Bsc Cog Sci students initial reaction to the fields covered and is severly lacking in understanding and depth on many of the areas covered here.
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