What's the Connection Between Art and Science?

Nearly half of the sulfur dioxide emissions across the planet came from the UK alone from 1800 to 1850 with London accounting for 10% of that. This kind of air pollution can radically change how landscapes look in visual ways, so it's no surprise that Monet and Turner were able to visualize this in a realistic way. That's a really cool intersection of art and science to be able to figure out what the world was looking like in scientific terms just by analyzing art.

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