ANALYSIS
Science fiction, perception, and ontology: is the world fake?
Ciro Flamarion Cardoso
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: art and nature, poetry and science
Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler
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Physics and literature: building a bridge between two cultures
João Zanetic
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Science and art: unlikely relations?
José Claudio Reis, Andreia Guerra and Marco Braga
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The transparent body: medical imaging and popular culture in the twentieth century
Francisco Ortega
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Personal reflections on Jackson Pollock’s fractal paintings
Richard Taylor
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Salvador Dalí’s obsession with science
Mònica López Ferrado
text in spanish
Cinema and the scientific imaginary
Bernardo Jefferson de Oliveira
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Brunelleschi’s mirror, Alberti’s window, and Galileo’s “perspective tube”
Samuel Y. Edgerton
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Cloning goes to the Movies
Craig Cormick
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INTERVIEWS
The poetic side of science
interview with Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, interview given to Carla Almeida
text in portuguese
Einstein and Picasso: mere coincidence?
interview with Arthur I. Miller, interview given to Luisa Massarani, Carla Almeida and José Claudio Reis
text in portuguese
Art and science on the stage
interview with Carlos Palma, interview given to Luisa Massarani and Carla Ameida
text in portuguese
Transgenic art
interview with Eduardo Kac, interview given to Dolores Galindo
text in portuguese
ESSAY
Poetry and science – almost a short-short story
Marco Lucchesi
text in portuguese
IMAGES
Fayga Ostrower, a life open to sensibility and to the intellect
Carla Almeida
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SOURCES
Scientific enchantment: science topics in the lyrics of popular Brazilian music
Ildeu de Castro Moreira and Luisa Massarani
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