If you're interested in the subject, read Cassirer "The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy" or try my diss, which is microfiched by U of Minnesota(?)
Artists most definitely did not buy the division between the "truth" of science and of art.
Joanna
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From: "Charles Brown" <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
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> Joanna:
> why it was that in the seventeenth century, people started talking
> about there being one truth for science and another for art, a
> subsidiary assertion being that normal language was degraded, but that
> the language of science (mathematics) was pure....and that therefore,
> science was by definition "true."
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> CB: I'm guessing it was the scientist-mathematicians and artists who
> started saying that math and art language was "pure" and "true" and
> normal language degraded ?
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