Author’s Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Foreword by Walter de la Mare 5
3. Author’s Preface 12
4. Contents 15
5. Illustrations 17
6. Introduction 19
7. I. Features of Resemblance and of Contrast between the Arts and the Sciences 23
8. II. Examples of Imaginative Stimulus through Structure and Symbolism 43
9. III. Historical Failure to maintain a Balance between the Scientific and the Imaginative 86
10. IV. Leonardo da Vinci as Scientist in Art: his fantastic Drawings and the Prototype of Scientific Uneasiness in an Unscientific Community 137
11. Conclusion 191
12. Bibliography 194
13. Index 197