JF Ptak Science Books post 1821
Rene Magritte says that this is not a pipe. And of course he is correct--it isn't a pipe; it is a painting of a pipe. And so the Surrealist (or the man who was a painter who painted in a style known as Surrealisme) establishes a bit of character in the history of images in a painting known as The Treachery of Images.
I am very attracted to non-treacherous displays of scientific evidence and thinking, particularly those illustrations for encyclopediae and large works on large things, universal assemblies of the...
