![]() But there are multiple others points that could have used a picture if he really wanted to make his point clear.īut in the end, being perfectly clear may not have been his goal. He describes paintings but doesn't reprint any of them, and the chapter really withers without them. The most obvious example is that his chapter on the perception and portrayal of the air in the history of art. And then when he really needs a picture, there isn't one, and his language gets tangled trying to make up for it. ![]() There are a few pictures, but that are largely not helpful to the author to make his point. The chapters form a hodge-podge that eventually becomes a picture, but it's part memoir, part poem, and part science. It's far more a meditation on things having to do with air than a science book. ![]()
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