A Search for Structure

By Cyril Stanley Smith

Book Overview

These fourteen essays celebrate the necessary unity between aesthetic curiosity and scientific and technological discovery. Drawing on his own experience as a metallurgist and his wide-ranging studies of ancient and modern artifacts, Cyril Smith offers an intriguing and generously illustrated exploration of the relationship between material structure and our sense of beauty.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262191911
• ISBN13: 9780262191913
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.0" x 7.3"