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What is Historiometry

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Sustaining Creativity and the Arts in the Digital Age
A term referring to a class of research in which the facts of history have been subjected to statistical treatment according to some method of measurement that is more or less objective or impersonal in nature.
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Creativity: An Overview
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7840-7.ch001
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to provide a general premise to the contents of the following chapters. It introduces the notion of creativity, highlighting the main historical turning points and briefly presenting the three distinct domains in which creativity is deemed to occur, namely 1) philosophy, which focuses on the theoretical essence of creativity as well as its aesthetic and ethical dimensions; 2) art, which focuses on the creation of objects intended to be beautiful; and 3) science, which focuses on creating innovative artifacts, including models purposed for a specified problem domain.
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