CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xi
List of contributions xiii
Introduction 1
PART ONE
Microcosms Lisa's laws 12
Diirer's diagnoses 14
Cycling the cosmos 16
Palissy's philosophical pots 18
Vincian velcro 20
Vesalius' veracity 22
Babes in bottles 24
PART TWO
Spatial visions
Basically Brunelleschian 28
Piero's perspective 30
Vermeer's vision 32
Saenredam's shapes 34
Kepler's cosmos 36
Cartesian contrivances 38
Maculate moons 40
Hooke's housefly 42
PART THREE
Nature on the move
Merian's metamorphoses 46
Sexy stamens and provocative
pistils 48
Stubbs' seeing 50
Audubon in action 52
Wright's ruptions 54
Turner's trinity 56
PART FOUR
Graphic precisions
Monge's maths; Hummel's
highlights 60
Modelled moons 62
Lucid looking 64
Wheatstone's waves 66
Mendeleev's matrix or
'Telling tables' 68
Gray's greyness 70
Graphic gropings 72
Rontgen's rays 74
Boys' bubbles 76
Stilled splashes 78
PART FIVE
Man and beast Shelley's shocks 82
Slanted statistics 84
Fremiet's frenzy 86
Hyde's horrors 88
Haeckel's hierarchies 90
Akeley's Africa 92
Ernst's ego 94
PART six
Space and time
Boccioni's ballistics 98
Feynman's figurations 100
Dali's dimensions 102
Bill's bands 104
Abbott's absolutes 106
Merz's maths 108
PART SEVEN
Making models
Animal arts 112
Albers' abstracts 114
Gabo's geometry 116
Kendrew constructs; Geis gazes ) 18
Max's modelling 120
Visible viruses 122
Kroto and charisma 124
lulesz's joyfulness 126
Mammary models 128

PART EIGHT
New worlds revealed
Heezen's highlands 132
Dendrites from the deep 134
TurrelPs tunnelling 136
Venus' voyeurs 138
Lane's landscapes 140
PART NINE
Process and pattern Metzger's mission 144
Parker's pieces 146
Callan's canyons 148
Cementing relationships (by Ian
Stewart) 150
Derges' designs 152
Onwin's holistics 154
De Vries' varieties 156
Hesse-Honegger's handwork 158
Golds worthy's genera 160
Latham's life-forms 162
Attractive attractors 164
PART TEN
People, places, and publications Icons of intellect 168
Laudable labs? 170
Noticing Nature 172
Concluding remarks 177
Bibliography 182
Index 197