Nature 1998 Martin Kemp - Abstracts

Nature 1998 Martin Kemp
TitleSubjectAuthors
Abbott's absolutes.(scientific photography of Berenice Abbott)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Boccioni's ballistics.(relativities expressed in the work of Umberto Boccioni, Futurist artist)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Cartesian contrivances.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Durer's diagnoses.(German painter, printmaker and theorist Albrecht Durer)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Feynman's figurations: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a diagram can be worth many lines of complicated algebraic formulas.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Fremiet's frenzy.(sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet's influence on scientific understanding)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Graphic gropings.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Gray's greyness.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Heezen's highlands: People who chart the ocean floor draw up landscapes no one has seen, using machines that send out sound waves and invisible rays.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Hesse-Honegger's hand-work.(zoological illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Icons of intellect: Herschel the star-gazer with light around his head, Einstein's wild hair and vast brain, Hawking's interstellar mind transcending his earthbound body. It's not just that we'eve seen then so often: Some scientists really look the part.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Kemp's conclusions. (Art and Science)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Kendrew constructurs; Geis gazes.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Lane's landscapes: biologists such as Nancy Lane are venturing into previously unexplored and strangely beautiful realms of the cell, using sophisticated microscopies allied with familiar, age-old visual techniques.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Laudable labs?(significance of changing fashions in architecture of science labs)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Mammary models: Clinicians screening patients for diseases such as breast cancer have to let a machine do much of the seeing for them. Theoretical modelling of the processes involved can help to ensure that reliable images are generated.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Max's modelling.(science modelling)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Mendeleev's matrix: Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table permitted him to systematize crucial chemical data.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Merian's metamorphoses: Nurtured from an early age in the art of still-life painting and naturalistic illustration, the courageous seventeenth-century artist Maria Sibylla Merian allied her vision and her skills to convey the complex life-cycles of insects.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Modelled moons.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Noticing Nature.(how science uses visual images, part 1)(changing appearance of Nature magazine)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Parker's pieces.(photographer Cornelia Parker)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Rontgen's rays: When x-rays were discovered in the last century they swiftly captured the popular imagination, giving rise to a new art form, saucy poetry and circus sideshows alongside their serious roles in science and medicine.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Saenredam's shapes.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Stilled splashes: The physicist Arthur Worthington was intrigued by the beauty to be found in photographs of splashes produced when bodies of various shapes and sizes fall into fluids.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Turner's trinity. (J.M.W. Turner's interest in scientific theory)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Venus's voyeurs.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Vesalius's veracity.(implications of illustrations of surgical tools and anatomy by Andreas Vesalius)Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Visible viruses: The structure of viruses was for a long time an enigma. It took an amalgam of techniques, especially the rapidly burgeoning field of electron microscopy, to reveal the quasi-symmetrical nature of viral architecture.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
Wheatstone's waves: The nineteenth-century creative genius Sir Charles Wheatstone invented a wave machine and other 'philosophical toys' that had a serious purpose in demonstrating the laws of physics.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Kemp
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