Popular Scientific Lectures: Viz. On the Relation of Optics to Painting; On the Origin of the Planetary System; On Thought in Medicine; On Academic Freedom in German Universities (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780483670518: Popular Scientific Lectures: Viz. On the Relation of Optics to Painting; On the Origin of the Planetary System; On Thought in Medicine; On Academic Freedom in German Universities (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Popular Scientific Lectures: Viz. On the Relation of Optics to Painting; On the Origin of the Planetary System; On Thought in Medicine; On Academic Freedom in German Universities

We have not here to do with a discussion of the ultimate objects and aims of art, but only with an examination of the action of the elementary means with which it works. The knowledge of the latter must, however, form an indispensable basis for the solution of the deeper questions, if we are to under stand the problems which the artist has to solve, and the mode in which he attempts to attain his object.

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