Tom McLeish FRS is Professor of Natural Philosophy at York University, where he works with chemists, engineers and biologists in universities and industry to connect material properties with their molecular structure. He also works on connections between science and policy, history (e.g. interdisciplinary re-examinations of medieval scientific treatises) and the humanities, resulting in the recent books Faith and Wisdom in Science (OUP 2014). He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Durham University (2008-2014) and is Chair of the Royal Society's Education Committee. He has been a Reader in the Anglican Church since 1993.

... convergence of many things often throws up a new picture, a process McLeish calls ''seeing the unseen.'' Leaps of imaginations are crucial for this kind of creativity, for it is only by such leaps that one can join disparate domains and bring about the emergence of a new ontological picture. Scientific creativity, when properly understood, has the same structure as creativity in the arts.

• Introduction: Creativity and Constraint 1: Creative Inspiration in Science 2: Seeing the Unseen: Visual Imagination, and the Unconscious 3: Experimental Science and the Art of the Novel 4: Music and Mathematics: Creating the Sublime 5: Emotion and Reason in Scientific Creation 6: The End of Creation

Tom McLeish FRS is Professor of Natural Philosophy at York University, where he works with chemists, engineers and biologists in universities and industry to connect material properties with their molecular structure. He also works on connections between science and policy, history (e.g. interdisciplinary re-examinations of medieval scientific treatises) and the humanities, resulting in the recent books Faith and Wisdom in Science (OUP 2014). He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Durham University (2008-2014) and is Chair of the Royal Society's Education Committee. He has been a Reader in the Anglican Church since 1993.

... convergence of many things often throws up a new picture, a process McLeish calls ''seeing the unseen.'' Leaps of imaginations are crucial for this kind of creativity, for it is only by such leaps that one can join disparate domains and bring about the emergence of a new ontological picture. Scientific creativity, when properly understood, has the same structure as creativity in the arts.

• Introduction: Creativity and Constraint 1: Creative Inspiration in Science 2: Seeing the Unseen: Visual Imagination, and the Unconscious 3: Experimental Science and the Art of the Novel 4: Music and Mathematics: Creating the Sublime 5: Emotion and Reason in Scientific Creation 6: The End of Creation

Tom McLeish FRS is Professor of Natural Philosophy at York University, where he works with chemists, engineers and biologists in universities and industry to connect material properties with their molecular structure. He also works on connections between science and policy, history (e.g. interdisciplinary re-examinations of medieval scientific treatises) and the humanities, resulting in the recent books Faith and Wisdom in Science (OUP 2014). He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Durham University (2008-2014) and is Chair of the Royal Society's Education Committee. He has been a Reader in the Anglican Church since 1993.

... convergence of many things often throws up a new picture, a process McLeish calls ''seeing the unseen.'' Leaps of imaginations are crucial for this kind of creativity, for it is only by such leaps that one can join disparate domains and bring about the emergence of a new ontological picture. Scientific creativity, when properly understood, has the same structure as creativity in the arts.

• Introduction: Creativity and Constraint 1: Creative Inspiration in Science 2: Seeing the Unseen: Visual Imagination, and the Unconscious 3: Experimental Science and the Art of the Novel 4: Music and Mathematics: Creating the Sublime 5: Emotion and Reason in Scientific Creation 6: The End of Creation