Explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. The text focuses on the late-19th and 20th centuries, the age of modern art and physics.[...]

In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations - a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the Big Bang itself - can be seen i[...]

"Miller is an excellent historian...and a fine biographer...[His] artful arrangement of his conclusions...makes the book something of an intellectual thriller. "-New York Times Book Review. . The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of gre[...]