To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Natural History  General Natural History

Insight of Genius Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art

Out of Print
By: Arthur I Miller
481 pages, B/w plates, illus, figs, tabs
Publisher: MIT Press
Insight of Genius
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Insight of Genius ISBN: 9780262631990 Paperback Feb 2000 Out of Print #126029
  • Insight of Genius ISBN: 9780387946719 Hardback Dec 1996 Out of Print #122795
About this book Related titles

About this book

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.

Customer Reviews

Out of Print
By: Arthur I Miller
481 pages, B/w plates, illus, figs, tabs
Publisher: MIT Press
Media reviews

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

Current promotions
Best of WinterNHBS Moth TrapNew and Forthcoming BooksBuyers Guides