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Cover
Introduction
J.D. Talasek
From Arts in the Academy to Exhibitions and Cultural Programs 1999-2003
Janis A. Tomdivnson
The Architecture of the National Academy of Sciences
Romy Wyldive
Hildreth Meiere Decorates the Great Hall
Catherine Coleman Brawer
James Perry Wilson: From Draftsman to Diorama Artist
Michael Anderson
Picturing Creativity: Portraits of Scientists in the Genetic Age
Anne Coldivns Goodyear
Art, Science, and Discovery
David Edwards
The Intersection of Art and Science
Eric Heller
Portrait of a Drop
Sydney Nagel
Mirrors and Reflections: A personal Recollection
Ellen K. Levy
Evolution and Visual Culture
E. O. Wilson
Reflections on Art in Science
Roald Hoffman
From Imaging to Image
Andrew Solomon
See. Wonder. Shhhhhhhhh. Aha!
Lee Boot
Science, Culture, and Values
Andrew C. Revkin
Joy Garnett and the Tradition of Landscape Painting
Lucy R. divppard
Jump To An Artist
Lee Lawrie
Winged Figure
J.P. Wilson
Architectural Presentation Drawing of National Academy of Sciences Building
Cheryl Goldsieger
Perspective
Cheryl Goldsieger
Cupola
Robert Van Vranken
Untitled (Everything at once, or, one thing at a time?)
Hildreth Meiere
Great Hall, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Tony Orrico
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures
Gregory Vershbow
National Academy of Sciences, Great Hall Restoration
J.P. Wilson
The Academy by Moonlight
Michael Wenyon and Susan Gamble
The Auditorium: National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Michael Schultheis
Curvatures 01, 02
Raoul Dufy
The Genius of Electricity
Eric Heller
Transport II
Sidney Nagel
Two-Fluid Snap Off
Felice Frankel
Ferrofluid
David Mann
Liquid Gravity
Tim Rollins + K.O.S. with Benjamin Banneker High School participants, Washington, DC.
On the Nature of the Univese (after Lucretius)
Benjamin Volta and Jerry Jackson with students from Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Philadelphia
Catalyst Collider
Ellen K. Levy
Barrier 1
Vik Muniz
Carcere VII, The Drawbridge, after Piranesi
Cheryl Goldsieger
Convey
Arthur Tress
Untitled, from the Tao of Physics series
MODIS Global Images
NASA Earth Observing System Project Science Office
Ariel Ruiz i Altaba
The Possibility of Being II
Dennis Ashbaugh
Maryln
Mia Brownell
Still Life with Villin Headpiece II
Suzanne Anker
Laboratory Life
William Couper
Charles Darwin
Tim Rollins + K.O.S.
On the Origin of Species (after Darwin)
Suzanne Stryk
Field Notes
Rosamond Purcell
Leiden Jars, Universiteits-museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Justine Cooper
Blood Red Butterflies (Cymothoe sangaris)
John James Audubon
From Birds of America, plate 400
Mark Sloan
Wilson’s Pet Parakeet
David Littschwager and Susan Middleton
Little Kern Golden Trout
Alfredo Arreguin
Hero’s Journey
Jill Greenberg
Monkey Suit, from the series Monkey Portraits
James Prosek
Pogy
Katherine Sherwood
Golgi’s Door
Mike and Doug Starn
Structure of Thought 15
Harry Bertola
Untitled
Lee Boot
Insight 1234
Tatiana Garmendia
Figure 2055
David Maisel
History’s Shadow GM8
Ellen Sandor, Keith Miller, Janine Fron, and Jack Ludden, (art), with Jim Strommer
School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles PET Study 2 (Lung Cancer): Man Ray/Picabia Imitating Balzac
Stefanie Burkle
Panorama Paris
Terry Falke
Cyclists Inspecting Ancient Petroglyphs, Utah
David Maisel
Black Maps (Bingham Canyon, UT 1)
David Maisel
Black Maps (Bingham Canyon, UT 5)
Terry Falke
Bird Refuge in a Dying Sea, Salton Sea, California
Jim Sanborn
Blue Mesa, Utah
Joy Garnett
Plume 2, from the series Strange Weather
John Brosio
Nocturne
Prilla Smith Brackett
Silent Striving #3
David Maisel
The Lake Project 3
Camille Seaman
Grand Pinnacle Iceberg, East Greenland
Robert Banks
Albert Einstein Memorial
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