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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