Overview: Approaches science, art and literature as a single culture.Explores the history of chemistry and physics through the lens of poems, novels, or objects of fine art.Discusses the role of doubt and error.This book argues that science and the arts are not two different cultures, but rather different manifestations of the same culture. Divided into seven parts, it presents a collection of translated and revised essays, mostly at the intersection between realia and humaniora. In the first two parts, the author discusses how some myths, both ancient and modern, have become intertwined with
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