A search for structure
Subtitle: selected essays on science, art, and history
By: Cyril Stanley Smith.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Science -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Art -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: "Bibliography of the work of Cyril Stanley Smith" , p. (319)-399.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Contents, Grain shapes and other metallurgical applications of topology; value: The discovery of carbon in steel; value: Structure, substructure, and superstructure; value: The interpretation of microstructures of metallic artifacts; value: Matter versus materials; value: The early history of casting, molds, and the science of solidification; value: Porcelain and plutonism; value: Art, technology, and science; value: Metallurgical footnotes to the history of art; value: Reflections on technology and the decorative arts in the nineteenth century; value: On art,invention, and technology; value: Some constructive corrodings; value: A highly personal view of science and its history; value: Structural hierarchy in science, art, and history.