Excerpt from Anatomy and Art: The Annual Address Read Before the Philosophical Society of Washington, December 12, 1894 There are those who regard with some degree of timid dread the introduction of science into art. Art, they affirm, is conventional and full of exaggerations, and has nothing in common with the precision of science. A great master who was not only painter, but sculptor, architect, engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, has clearly defined this matter. In a general way, he says, it is the office of science to distin guish what is impossible from what Is possible. Imagi nation left to herself would revel in unrealizable dreams. Science controls her by showing what cannot be. It does not follow that science includes the principle of art, but that we must study science either before or at the same time with art to learn In what limits the latter is to be confined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.