Foreword: Science as the artist's muse / Neil deGrasse Tyson --
Art in pursuit of the absolute : romanticism --
Adopting a scientific worldview --
The French art of observation : a cool rejection of Darwin --
German and Russian art of the absolute : a warm embrace of Darwin --
Loving and loathing science at the fin de sie?cle --
Looking inward : art and the human mind --
Wordless music and abstract art --
The culmination of Newton's clockwork universe --
Einstein's space-time universe --
Abstract art with a cosmic perspective --
The disunity of nature : postmodern art, science, and the spiritual.
