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Modern Art
Modern Art
Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s 1936 diagram of modern art
This work was created for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition and catalogue Cubism and Abstract Art. It is essentially a directed network showing how Barr believed modern abstraction developed between about 1890 and 1935. It was printed on the catalogue’s dust jacket and became one of the most influential visual summaries of modern-art history.
Modern Physics
Modern Physics
AI (ChatGPT)-generated parody diagram of modern physics.
What we now call modern physics emerged during roughly the same period as the artistic movements represented in Barr’s diagram.
After learning Modern Physics, do you agree with the figure above?
Lecture 1 Dawn of New Age (Harris Chapter 1)
The goal of this course is to become familiar with non-classical physics, learn some of the new mathematics needed to describe it, appreciate how surprising many modern-physics discoveries were, and understand how scientific knowledge evolves when an established framework encounters limits. We will begin with a historical example from mechanics and astronomy: Kepler summarized planetary motion empirically, Newton explained it dynamically, the anomaly in Mercury’s orbit exposed a limit of Newtonian gravity, and general relativity provided a broader framework. We will then follow a similar progression in electricity and magnetism, where separate electric and magnetic phenomena were unified by Maxwell, light was identified as an electromagnetic wave, and tensions between electromagnetism and classical mechanics ultimately helped lead to special relativity.
(Extra Recommended Reading Assignment: Read Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Chapter 1: Role of History)
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