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Discovering by Perceiving in Art and in Science
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 27, Number 3, June 1994
- pp. 181-182
- Article
- Additional Information
Deep analogies are displayed between the working processes of experimental scientists and visual artists, craftspersons who detect new fragments of reality through the perception of their own data. In this process similar roles are played by active perception and imagination, guided by a tacit sense that the discovered fragment had always been there.