What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake\'s Geometry --the conception of space-time that informs his work across media and genres.
More striking still, Cooper shows how Blake\'s art of vision leads us today to visualize four-dimensional concepts of space, time, and Man for ourselves..
Blake\'s mythmaking exploits the imaginative reach of formal abstractions to generate a model of how sensation imparts physical extension to the world.
His poetry and art realized the revolutionary potential of Enlightened natural philosophy even as that philosophy still needed an Einstein for its physics to snap fully into focus.
Far from being anti-Newtonian, Blake was prophetically post-Newtonian.
Blake\'s cosmology forms part of his age\'s deep reevaluation of body and soul, of matter and Heaven, and even probes what it is to understand understanding, reason, and substance.
Romantic-period physics was not, as others have assumed, materialist.
Cooper reveals Blake to be the vehicle of a single imaginative vision in which art, literature, physics, and metaphysics stand united.
In this illuminating, inventive new study, Andrew M.
What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake\'s Geometry --the conception of space-time that informs his work across media and genres
