The Artful Universe ExpandedOUP Oxford, 2011 M03 10 - 336 páginas In The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. It looked at some of the unexpected ways in which the structure of the Universe, its laws, its environments, and above all its underlying mathematical structure imprints itself on our thoughts, our aesthetic preferences, and our views about the nature of things. The exploration embraced topics such as perspective; the size of things and the origins of aesthetics; computer art (posing the question: is it art?); and the origins of our susceptibility to music. Life sales of the hardback totalled just over 25,000 copies. The study of the evolutionary and mathematical underpinnings of our aesthetic sense, and our understanding of the nature and scale of the universe has grown over the past decade, with developments in evolutionary psychology, and in cosmology. This paperback of the revised edition (OUP, 2005) contains eight new sections covering the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets, fashionable postmodernist rejection of science as uncovering objective reality, growing understanding of key ratios appearing in biological relationships, and studies of the underlying mathematical structure of a Pollock painting. |
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... Figures in a landscape: the dilemma of computer art 4. The heavens and the Earth The remains of the day: rhythms of life Empire of the Sun: the reasons for the seasons Extrasolar planets: a case of spatial prejudice A handful of dust ...
... Figures in a landscape: the dilemma of computer art 4. The heavens and the Earth The remains of the day: rhythms of life Empire of the Sun: the reasons for the seasons Extrasolar planets: a case of spatial prejudice A handful of dust ...
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... Figure 2.1). What these drawings lack is a sense of perspective: the presentation of three-dimensional spatial information on a at surface. Our eyes are immediately sensitive to its absence or imperfect presence: it is the touchstone of ...
... Figure 2.1). What these drawings lack is a sense of perspective: the presentation of three-dimensional spatial information on a at surface. Our eyes are immediately sensitive to its absence or imperfect presence: it is the touchstone of ...
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... (Figure 2.2). Another form of visual subtlety in these oriental landscapes is the absence of shadow. Shadow enhances the illusion of perspective by endowing the observer with a privileged position in space or time, determined by the ...
... (Figure 2.2). Another form of visual subtlety in these oriental landscapes is the absence of shadow. Shadow enhances the illusion of perspective by endowing the observer with a privileged position in space or time, determined by the ...
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... Figure 2.3 parodies. Kant seized upon this point to undermine all sorts of woolly claims that his contemporaries had been confidently making about the nature of reality, and then used it as the startingpoint for his own complex theory ...
... Figure 2.3 parodies. Kant seized upon this point to undermine all sorts of woolly claims that his contemporaries had been confidently making about the nature of reality, and then used it as the startingpoint for his own complex theory ...
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... Figure 2.4, then the sense of perspective that we rely upon to create good threea dimensional interpretation of the purely two-dimensional image cast upon the back of the retina is confused: there is no unique three-dimensional image ...
... Figure 2.4, then the sense of perspective that we rely upon to create good threea dimensional interpretation of the purely two-dimensional image cast upon the back of the retina is confused: there is no unique three-dimensional image ...
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branching | |
the evolution of cooperation | |
the art of landscape | |
the dilemma of computer | |
The heavens and the Earth | |
The natural history of noise | |
Alls well that ends well | |
Tales of the unexpected | |
the fabric of the world | |
Illustration acknowledgements | |
Index | |
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