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Nature is nowhere rectangular: Galileo's Starry Messenger meets Matisse's Le Guignon: science and art each result from intense seeing. Evidence can be a beautiful thing.(SCIENCE + ART)

From: Skeptical Inquirer  |  Date: 11/1/2006  |  Author: Tufte, Edward

A colleague of Galileo, Federico Cesi, wrote that Galileo's thirty-eight hand-drawn images of sunspots "delight both by the wonder of the spectacle and the accuracy of expression." That is beautiful evidence.

Evidence that bears on questions of any complexity typically involves multiple forms of discourse. Evidence is evidence, whether words, numbers, images, diagrams, still or moving. The intellectual tasks remain constant regardless of the mode of evidence: to understand and ...

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