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Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light

by Leonard Shlain · 1993

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Studies the way science has influenced the artistic imagination throughout history, such as the parallel between Einstein's theory of relativity and the work of Cezanne, Monet, and the other Impressionists.

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