Art is more important than science. You can see it very well in Medal of Honor for Arts and Sciences from the House of Orange.† Last Monday, Dr. / Astronaut Andre Kuipers was allowed to do so Receive the gem† OK, a gem, it’s still quite large, as can be seen in the photo where Kuipers are shown passes through the tape†
This makes him one of seven scholars to be awarded the Medal of Honor. In the past, a single wheel maker (Dafjee) was also honored. But the vast majority of medals went to artists. Thirty-two to be exact.
If the king and his predecessors valued art more than science, is it any wonder that his subjects turned to science?
What is noteworthy in the list of winners: not a single artist is a scientist either. “Medal of Honor for Arts or Science” would be a better title.
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†Scientists and artists in all respects are rare(Art on Sunday, September 8, 2013). Certainly of the kind of Leonardo da Vinci (including engineer, physicist, anatomist, sculptor, and painter) and Galileo Galilei (physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, and painter).
Life in the fourteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries may have been less active than it is today, but it is highly unlikely that the masters would have completed a successful study in all those fields. Not to mention building a scientific career with it. But the romantic image of “Uomo universale” appeals to the imagination.
Scientists in those years had to be good at fiction, just because of the lack of photo and film resources. If one wants to make something visually clear, it must be drawn, drawn, and painted. This resulted, for example, with much better usage instructions than we sometimes find today.
Galileo Galileo (1564-1642), engineering and military compass (circa 1606)
Galileo described and signed his invention ‘Le operazioni del compasso geometrico e Militare’†
Insect book
Maria Sibylla Merian He was an entomologist and very good as an illustrator/illustrator. She became more famous as an artist than a scientist. A good example is her book on caterpillars and butterflies in Suriname. Sixty inscriptions where creatures are depicted on the plants they eat. All inscriptions contain a scientific description.
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717) – Surinamincium Cortical Transformations (1705)
Royal Library Put the book online†
Contemporary scholars/artists
All is well and good, but can the king also award a medal to contemporary scholars/artists? certainly…
Astrophysicist and Professor of Cosmology Vincent Ike Really as an artist decent wallet It was built. he is designer Huygensfonteinan interactive artwork for public space, to be realized in Leiden.
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Dr. Mino Pars / Cardiologist, Made For the love of life (2010 – Five Sculptures) of the hospital where he works. In the Elephant Parade in London Another of his statues appeared.
Mino pars (1967-present), PerchFant No. 2 (2010)
american frogs
Felix Hess applies his background in physics to facilities dealing with nature, interaction, senses, and silence.
Felix Hess (1941 – present), It’s in the air (2008)
In Australia, Felix Hess was inspired to communicate with the American toad. He is Audio errors They interact with each other like American frogs. As soon as they notice an unfamiliar sound, they shut up.
Hess made some recordings of Frog Frog and now we can listen to the Frog Choir Concert.
That’s not inferior to Steve Reich, don’t you think?
Well, we will give you the list of artists/scientists we can find. We may have missed a little, but you will remember it.
List of artists/scholars
Alexander Borodin (1833 – 1887), composer and chemist
Alfred L. Copley (1910 – 1992) medical scientist and painter
Angelo Vermeulen (1971 – present), artist, biologist and space researcher
Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871), botanist and photographer
Brian May (1947 – present), guitarist and astrophysicist
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, painter, sculptor
Caesar Quick (1835 – 1918) engineer and composer
David Goodsell (1961 – present), biologist, chemist, painter, painter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) poet, philosopher and theologian
Ernst Ansermt (1883 – 1969) conductor, composer and mathematician
Ernst Heikal (1834-1919), zoologist, philosopher and painter (book: Kunstformen der Natur)
Felix Hess (1941–present) physicist, mathematician, and visual artist (combinations)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, painter
Hilary Koprowski (1916-2013), virologist, immunologist, composer
Iannis Zenakis (1922-2001) architect and composer
JW von Goethe (1749 – 1832) poet, writer, and scientist in fields such as physics
John James Audubon (1785 – 1851), naturalist, ornithologist, illustrator and painter
Jonas Stahl (1981 – present), visual artist and publicist
Crane clevis (1960 – present), visual artist, researcher
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) engineer, physicist, anatomist, sculptor, painter
Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895), chemist, microbiologist, painter
Frederic Banting (1891-1941) physician, physicist, painter
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717), entomologist, painter, illustrator
Mino pars (1967 – present), physician, cardiologist, painter
Millie Balakirev (1837-1910), composer, conductor, mathematician
Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), composer, mathematician and navigator
Vera Meyer (1970 – present), biotechnologist, visual artist
Rafael Lozano Hammer (1967 – present), physicist, plastic artist
Roald Hoffman (1937 – present), theoretical chemist, poet and playwright
Roger Gillimen (1924 – present), endocrinologist, painter
Samuel Morse (1791-1872), inventor, painter
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), histologist, pathologist, anatomist, painter
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), chemist, poet
Vincent Ike (1946 – present), astrophysicist, professor of cosmology, plastic artist
William Herschel (1738 – 1822), astronomer, composer