LEON4102_pp185-199.ps - 3/11/2008 12:52 PM Leonardo Reviews LEONARDO R EVIEWS Editor-in-Chief: Michael Punt Managing Editor: Bryony Daleï¬eld Associate Editor: Robert Pepperell A full selection of reviews is published monthly on the LR web site: . REVIEW ARTICLE SYMMETRY: CULTURALHISTORICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SCIENCE-ARTS RELATIONS: THE NATURAL AND MANMADE WORLD IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH by György Darvas. Translated from the Hungarian by David Robert Evans. Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, MA, and Berlin, 2007. xi + 508 pp. ISBN 10: 3-7643-7554-X; ISBN 13: 978-3-7643-7554-6. Reviewed by István Hargittai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Hungarian Academy of Sciences. E-mail: . György Darvas has been a dedicated organizer of symmetry meetings and editor of the periodical Symmetry. His enthusiasm has now spilled over into a 500-page book whose material is divided into ï¬ve parts: Introductory chapters; Interdisciplinary Applications; Symmetry in Inanimate Nature; The Road from Nature to Man; and Human Creativity. The text is illustrated by a plethora of quotations and images. The end matter contains a Bibliography; Sources of Illustrations; Subject Index; Index of Names; and some 30 pages of color plates. Unfortunately, the book lacks a clear formulation of purpose, systematic elucidation and reliability in the details of
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