ABSTRACT
Human beings are driven to represent their world in contrasting forms which vary from era to era but always have in common the representation of realities.
Points of view which in a given historical epoch represent an expression of scientific knowledge, in a succeeding epoch decline as science, but continue to exist … in the line of art and imagery. … science moved on from imagery-narratives to concepts, and the store of former personified-mythological nature-symbols continued to survive as a series of pictorial images …
(Eisenstein 1949: 126)