Jan Krikke: 3 books

This book is about space. When the Jesuit missionaries in the 16th century brought with them the first works of Chinese art with their characteristic parallel perspective, they were probably unaware of the fact that these pictures contained the key to a new conception of space. For space to classic...

Digital Dragon: The Road to Nirvana runs through the land of Tao offers a new perspective on art and science in East and West. Starting in the 19th century, Western science and technology helped to modernize the East. Not widely known is that Far Eastern aesthetics played a crucial role in modernizing...

What happens when we look at two of the most important sciences of today, quantum physics and artificial intelligence, through Chinese eyes? We see that the Chinese developed an esthetic theory about space and time centuries before Albert Einstein developed Relativity Theory. We also understand...