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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.