As Violette Verdy, a French dancer, put it: "He was using his body poetically as an instrument of poetic exploration".So what of Carlos Acosta?
The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 unleashed an era of exploration, in which scientific instruments became crucial for navigators.
In a 50-year span, the 94 African-American photographers whose provocative works go on view on Friday at the Brooklyn Museum of Art have used their cameras as instruments of social commentary and artistic exploration.
Dickensheets came late to the design of instruments for scientific exploration.
Two other concertos hewed to Vivaldi's three-movement norm, but both were highly individual in their explorations of instruments of widely disparate pitch.
At present, investigators should remain cautious about combining results from trials that use different instruments without careful exploration of possible heterogeneity of the results.
The armillary sphere was used as a navigational instrument by previous Portuguese kings who had sponsored worldwide voyages of exploration and settlement in the 15th and 16th centuries.
"The Illusion of Guidance" did create the appearance of order, following the interplay of the instruments as their explorations of a sprightly theme led them to a meditative point where a single note became their focus.
On a table between Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, representatives of the French king in London, are emblems of exploration, learning and trade: a globe that shows Brazil, mathematical and time-telling instruments, music, a carpet - used as a tablecloth - imported from Turkey.
Excited by the assignment to develop the science instruments for the rovers, Dr. Steven Squyres, a planetary geologist at Cornell University, said, "This mission will be humanity's first great voyage of exploration of this new millennium".
