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The abstract artist Piet Mondrian wrote in 1937 For there are “made” laws, “discovered” laws, but also laws—a truth for all time. These are more or less hidden in the reality which surrounds us and do not change. Not only science but art also, shows us that reality, at first incomprehensible, gradually reveals itself, by the mutual relations that are inherent in things. What better way to introduce this final chapter than to widen the theme of scientific realism and its integral role in the history of ideas to include the interplay between art and science.
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Miller, A.I. (1996). Art, Science, and the History of Ideas. In: Insights of Genius. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2388-7_10
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