Ascent of Man: A Personal View by J. Bronowski, No. 10 --World Within World (part 2)

In the basic shapes of crystals, man discovered a whole new world. Beginning with salt crystals, Dr. Bronowski retraces the steps in the organization of the elements into an atomic table, and the story of now “Physics becomes the greatest collective work of science--no, more--the greatest collective work of art of this century.”