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Truth and Beauty at the Nanoscale
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 42, Number 2, April 2009
- pp. 151-155
- Article
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New forms of science sometimes raise issues about the relation between an object and an image of the object. What is a faithful reproduction? How do technical processes affect the image? Nanoscale images evoke these issues. To enhance our visual knowledge of nanoscale objects, the author revisits early cubist theory. This leads to suggestions in a neo-cubist spirit for making and seeing nanoscale images.