Saturday, June 18, 2005

FILM: HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Nature's Beauty and Haeckel's Talents -- Laubichler 308 (5729): 1746 -- Science

FILM: HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Nature's Beauty and Haeckel's Talents -- Laubichler 308 (5729): 1746 -- Science: "
All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one. --Friedrich Schlegel (1)

Proteus, written and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker David Lebrun, presents a 19th-century vision of the age-old quest to grasp nature and her creative powers. In the 19th century, with Earth's surface mostly mapped and the readily visible life forms largely described and cataloged, the quest to understand nature turned inward toward the depths of the sea, the psyche, and the smallest elements of organic forms. Aptly named after the shape-shifting ancient Greek god of the sea, the film follows these interconnecting lines of research at this mythical frontier that so preoccupied the imagination of artists, scientists, and explorers."

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