Well, all those ones are seriously dead. And most of them
were living at a time where art and sciences were not split
the same way as now and didn't have exactly the same
meaning. What about people closer to our time ?
Best
Annick
Michael Punt wrote:
> well How about Herchel, Wright, Darwin, Huxley, Kirchner, Descartes, Spinoza
> Wedgwood for starters as a late night contribution?
>
> Michaael
>
>
>> From: Annick Bureaud <abureaud@gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: abureaud@gmail.com, YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
>> <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:29:13 +0200
>> To: abureaud@gmail.com
>> Cc: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
>> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] One Two Three More Cultures
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> And on a second thought : how many "first rate scientists"
>> did a "good work" in arts and humanities ? Is there that
>> many ? The problem is that I have never seen a list of names !
>>
>> And on a third thought : is this really the issue ?
>>
>> Annick
>>
>> Annick Bureaud wrote:
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>> Lightman re iterates a " wisdom" that i remember my father telling me
>>>> as a kid= Alan Lightman makes the generalisation that there are
>>>> a number of good examples of first rate scientists who went on to
>>>> do good work in the arts and humanities, but there are almost
>>>> no examples of people who started their careers as artists and then
>>>> went on to make important discoveries in the sciences or engineering
>>>> or mathematics
>>>>
>>> May be because it is nicer to be an artist than a scientist ;-)
>>>
>>> Joke apart, I think you are wrong, that it is one of those cliches that
>>> are persistent. If you don't split science between "applied" and "pure"
>>> (your favorite topic at the moment), then you can find many artists that
>>> had a double carreer or invented things or even some that went into
>>> applied science. The problem is that nobody as ever been interested to
>>> do a PhD on this or even a book and the second problem is that those
>>> people have usually been forgotten as artists (we don't remember they
>>> started as artists).
>>> And I guess that those who had both carreer, do not necessarily want to
>>> mix the 2, specially if they are doing "applied science" as it is not
>>> very well looked at by the art milieu. Yes, indeed, this is a cultural
>>> problem !
>>>
>>> Annick
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