Eye of the beholder

Chapter 1 contrasts dynamical explanation in the mechanical universe (Wilczek’s “ant’s-eye view of physical reality”) with adynamical explanation in the block universe (Wilczek’s “...

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings o...

A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making. This is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changi...

This chapter discusses how competition between two Islamic empires launched a Golden Age for palatial architecture in the Western Mediterranean during the Tenth Century. Trying to ...