Um escritor em todas as frentes… da molécula de
água, ao pensamento critico passando pela música e as cores. Um destaque para Phillip Ball e o tema cor.
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
A arte e a invenção da cor
Philip Ball
University of Chicago Press - 434 páginas
Das pinturas dos túmulos egípcios aos murais venezianos, do
impressionismo às imagens digitais, o autor fala/escreve de modo fascinante
sobre como a arte, a química e a tecnologia interactuaram ao longo de séculos
para nos deslumbrar visualmente.
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science
writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics
from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal Nature for over 10
years. He now writes a regular column in Chemistry World. Ball's most-popular
book is the 2004 Critical Mass: How One Things Leads to Another, winner of the
2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. It examines a wide range of topics
including the business cycle, random walks, phase transitions, bifurcation theory,
traffic flow, Zipf's law, Small world phenomenon, catastrophe theory, the
Prisoner's dilemma. The overall theme is one of applying modern mathematical
models to social and economic phenomena.
▪ Designing
the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier
(1994)
▪ Made
to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century
(1997)
▪ The
Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
(1999)
▪ H2O:
A Biography of Water (1999)
▪ Stories
of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules (2001)
▪ Bright
Earth: The Invention of Colour (2001)
▪ The
Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements (2002)
▪ Critical
Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (2004)
▪ Elegant
Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
(2005)
▪ The
Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
(2006)
▪ The
Sun and Moon Corrupted, a novel, Portobello Books Ltd,
(2008)
▪ Shapes,
Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009)
▪ Flow,
Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009)
▪ Branches,
Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009)
▪ The Music Instinct
(2010)
