"roots that twist together"

Here's a short article which touches upon establishing a common source for both artistic and scientific inspiration and presents a slightly loopy etymology of ideas as a decoding of the formal similarities between William Blake and James Clerk Maxwell's drawings,

"An archeologist of ideas would trace the roots of Maxwell's field drawings back through Faraday to Faraday's mentor Humphry Davy to Davy's friend the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (and the idea of the universe as a "cosmic web") to... Somewhere in the subterranean passages of Europe's psyche, from which sprang Revolution and Romanticism, somewhere in the murky subconsciousness of the race, an archeologist following the thread of Maxwell's thought would encounter Blake's Tyger, burning bright in the forest of the night, physical force poised to spring, fearfully symmetric."

http://www.sciencemusings.com/musingsarchive/2005_05_22_musings.html