Explores the forces for change that brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape, presenting examples to support the author's contention that science and art comprise a range of perennially familiar practices in two largely distinct, but occasionally overlapping spheres.
Proposes that the key to the cultural, artistic, educational, and intellectual changes which blossomed in the Renaissance were made possible by the expansion of commerce, capital, and personal wealth.
Explores the forces for change that brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape, presenting examples to support the author's contention that science and art comprise a range of perennially familiar practices in two largely distinct, but occasionally overlapping spheres.
