Credit: installation “Empyrean” by Alexandra Carr
The Poetry and Music of Science
a public lecture by
Professor Tom McLeish, FRS
University of York, UK
Tuesday 4 June 2019,
6 pm – 7:20 pm
Newton Lecture Theatre INB0114 in the Isaac Newton building, University of Lincoln
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‘I could not see any place in science for my creativity or imagination,’ was the explanation, of a bright school leaver to the author, of why she had abandoned all study of science. Yet as any scientist knows, the imagination is essential to the immense task of re-creating a shared model of nature from the scale of the cosmos, through biological complexity, to the smallest subatomic structures. Encounters like that one inspired a four year project leading to the OUP book, The Poetry and Music of Science, published this year, which takes a journey through the creative process in the arts as well as…
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