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approach, is to formulate the problem in relation to what
is already known, to make additions or extensions on the
basis of accepted principles, and then to proceed to test
these hypotheses experimentally. Another, which may be
called the mosaic approach, takes each problem for itself
with little reference to the field in which it lies, and seeks
to discover relations and principles that hold within the
circumscribed area.
Von Békésy then proceeds to introduce his two paintings:
A close analogy to these two approaches may be found in
the field of art. In the period between the eleventh and
seventeenth centuries the Arabs and the Persians
developed a high mastery of the arts of description. . . .
Later, during the Renaissance, a new form of