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(2005) Beyond art: a third culture, Dordrecht, Springer.

Formal intuition beyond and within art

Michael Stöltzner

pp. 7-11

If one wants to acquire a sense of how to exhibit science, the natural place to go is the technology museum. Through its technical applications, the tremendous progress of twentieth-century science can be grasped, even literally touched. In most cases, the theoretical sciences also have made their way into the museum — sometimes in a very ambitious manner, sometimes in a way that is embarrassing at best. Thus, the task of a 'scientific coordinator" in an arts and science exhibition seems to be no more than to devise a suitable combination of didactics of both science and museum pedagogy. To this end, she or he will build heavily upon models. For example: "The electron in a quantum-mechanical double-slit experiment feels whether one or two slits are open;" "Quantum mechanical observables are a sort of infinite-dimensional matrices;" "A non-pathological curve is defined by the continuous motion of a point."

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DOI: 10.1007/3-211-37846-4_1

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Stöltzner, M. (2005). Formal intuition beyond and within art, in Beyond art: a third culture, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 7-11.

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