• A stimulating and accessible exploration of the connections between art and science, from a writer who is uniquely qualified to speak to both sides
• Author Philip F. Palmedo is a retired physicist who has also published several books on modern sculpture
• He shows how art and science are both rooted in certain fundamental human instincts, such as an appreciation of balance and symmetry, and the use of symbols to represent nature
• He illustrates his argument with colour images of more than 125 diverse human creations, from cave paintings to the James Webb Space Telescope