The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential 19th-Century Textbook

The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential nineteenth Century Textbook The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential nineteenth Century Textbook The study of optics and the artistic work of science delineation emerged together in Europe, from the early high contrast shading wheel drawn by Isaac Newton in 1704 to the splendidly hand-hued outlines and graphs of Goethe in 1810. Goethe's representations are more eminent than Newton's, yet both motivated an impressive number of logical specialists in the nineteenth century. It would take a science author, the French columnist and mathematician Amédée Guillemin, to completely get a handle on the capability of outline as a methods for passing on the psyche twisting properties of light and shading to the overall population. Guillemin distributed the enormously well known textbook Les phénomènes de la build in 1868, in the end growing it into a five-volume material science reference book. (View and download a filtered duplicate at the Wellcome Collection.