Professor Gerard Pasterkamp explains how science has inspired art

May 1, 2024 at 10:41 am

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Austerlitz As a professor at UMC, Gerard Pasterkamp focuses on the mechanisms of atherosclerosis. He became fascinated by the paintings of Joseph Wright of Derby in which he depicted scientific experiments. “When I went to look for a book in which scientific discoveries were depicted in drawing, I could not find it,” which is why he now wrote it himself. “It was a major endeavor to discover whether the most important discoveries had been captured on canvas.”

“Until the last century, it was mainly artists who recorded historical events for posterity. My book ‘Painted Science’ is a collection of paintings about discoveries that turned out to be of great historical value. I talk more about works of art and describe the importance of discoveries and scientists that are relevant to contemporary society It includes works from Greek philosophers to scientists such as Copernicus, Galileo, Huygens, Bell, and Curie, but the book also contains artwork depicting ancient universities, explorers, and scientific fraud, among other things. Illustrated Science takes you through two hundred artworks illustrating the people and inventions that changed our world .

Pasterkamp discovered that famous inventors sometimes turned out to be talented painters or illustrators. “Art and science are two different worlds, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that scientists are also interested in drawing. They both require creativity and innovation. For example, Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, famously painted a work, as were William Talbot and Louis Daguerre, inventors of photography, Famous painters too. But I can’t draw or draw myself, this talent was not given to me. It took me a year and a half to research and write, but the beautiful thing is that I learned a lot from him myself.”

The book is for sale in bookstores. More information can be found at www. Paintscience.com.