Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, 2002, HC, NF.

Gamwell, Lynn, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 9 3/4", 344 pp.

ISBN: 0691089728

Black pictorial paper over board, featuring Ernst Haeckel's 1880-95 "Radiolaria" from an entry in Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger during the Years 1973-76 to both front and back, white and red lettering to spine, light wear to edges and tips, slight bump to tail, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block and endpapers. Very Good pictorial dust jacket, featuring a 1839 Color Study from Michel Eugène Chevreul to front with circular cut-out, Stanton Macdonald-Wright's 1914 artwork "Conception Synchrony" to back, red and black lettering to front, white and red lettering to spine, black lettering to interior flaps, 1" and 1/8" closed tears to circular cut-out, minor shelf wear to front and back, some soiling to front, light pigment transfer in-verso from red endpapers to dust jacket, slight creasing to tail, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. [5] 344 pp., replete with 208 black-and-white and 156 full-color images, Foreword: Science as the Artist's Muse by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Introduction, 13 chapters, Notes, Chronology, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index. From inside dust jacket: "Throughout this visually and intellectually stimulating book are beautiful images from both science and art--some well known, others rare--that reveal the scientific sources mined by Impressionist and Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau sculptors and architects, Cubists, and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists."