their interests and artistic achievements, helped men to 
     see bodies, plants and landscapes afresh in their material 
     reality. But the ways in which the artist and the modern 
     scientist employ sense impressions to create their 
     independent worlds are fundamentally different, and the 
     phenomenal development of science depended partly on a 
     separation of science from art.

     This is only to say that what began as a separation of 
the senses in science became the ground of all artistic 
opposition. The artist struggled to retain and to regain the 
integral, the interplay of sense in a world that was seeking 
madness by the simple road of isolation of the senses. As was 
indicated in the first pages of this book, the theme of King Lear  
is precisely what Nef is describing as the origins of modern 
science.