Between One Culture: Essays on Science and Art

By Robert Schiller

Book Overview

Is the sea wine-dark?.- Nessus' blood.- Shelley scientist.- Spectres were haunting Europe.- A puzzling tale on gold.- Alchemy: its end.- Alchemy: apologies.- H?lderlin, Blake - Newton.- Overcoming the Daze.- Master shoemaker and Meistersinger - two great physicists.- Robert Frost and Millikan.- Chemistry: a high romance.- Time and two great men.- X rays and Love.- Thomas Mann at the sick-bed.- Oil of vitriol in the marital bed.- Thermodynamics of Happiness and Love.- Thermodynamics on Stage.- Chance and Rule (Boltzmann, W. Ostwald).- Chance and a Poem (Boltzmann, Rilke).- Dante standing head down (Dante, Eisntein, Perrin).- A novel in the phase space.- Statues and Chemistry.- A reader's diary about humanists' friendship.- Point by point.- Icons of a chemist.- Line.- A sentence between Plato and Planck.- The birth of chemistry from the spirit of doubt.- Why is Ortgea angry with scientists?.- Why to be reason-able?.- Cruel orgnic chemistry.- The Nobelists' Sabbath.- Four Stamps.- Apocryphal speech on Lavoisier.- Modest Proposal.- A private letter about this book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030205401
• ISBN13: 9783030205409
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"