Yep! I think David is right to stress: “it doesn’t diminish my sense of wonder about either Van Gogh or turbulence” – BOTH!

Brigitte

 

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David, 

Typical of contemporary scientists' misapplication of their modern criteria to historic art without doing the slightest historical due diligence (both the original paper and this one). I get this all the time with Leonardo. 

very best,

Martin

 

On 22 Jan 2020, at 7:01 pm, David Steinman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

My postdoc spotted this paper, and I thought you might “enjoy" as an interesting response to what was clearly perceived as an over-interpretation of the science in art and of the scientific intuition of artists.

I wonder what he’d make of Hokusai (or, in Pythonese, "Lucky I didn't say anything about the dirty knife.” :-)

As for me, it doesn’t diminish my sense of wonder about either Van Gogh or turbulence, and it puts me in mind of one of my favourite (ironic) quotes: "Pedagogical simplicity is inevitably achieved at some cost of verisimilitude.” [Holmes, in Tauber’s “Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences”]

/das.



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