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Nature 444, 147-148 (9 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444147a; Published online 8 November 2006
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We can gain a clearer picture of visual representation by crossing the divide between art and science.
BOOK REVIEWED-Seen | Unseen: Art, Science and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope
by Martin Kemp
Oxford University Press: 2006. 368 pp. £25, $45
When British newspaper The Independent published a false-coloured image of Jupiter's atmosphere compiled from data taken by the spacecraft Galileo, the accompanying article began: "It may look like a Turner painting...". Martin Kemp enjoys both the absurd and the befitting in this characterization.
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