Seen and Unseen

Sometimes how we see the world is based, quite literally, on how we look at it. In this ground-breaking book, art historian Martin Kemp contends that many of our implicit assumptions about how the world works, which often make their way into scientific theories, stem from visual habits first developed in art. Starting off with a discussion of how the discovery of perspective fundamentally altered the visual culture of the Renaissance, Kemp produces a fascinating history of images af the natural order shared by art and science. Seen and Unseen is a book for those who look to both art and science for new ways of understanding the world. This richly illustrated, cutting-edge history of both art and science will itself provide a mini-history of visual innovation and scientific understanding from the Renaissance up to the present