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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... activity, but largely ignored the common features of existence that derive from the universality of our cosmic environment, and the necessary features that life-supporting environments must display. Just as science has for too long ...
... activity, but largely ignored the common features of existence that derive from the universality of our cosmic environment, and the necessary features that life-supporting environments must display. Just as science has for too long ...
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... activities that are uniquely human. But, paradoxically, from the same source has owed a systematic study of Nature that we call science. Their common origins may seem surprising to many, because a great gulf seems to lie between them ...
... activities that are uniquely human. But, paradoxically, from the same source has owed a systematic study of Nature that we call science. Their common origins may seem surprising to many, because a great gulf seems to lie between them ...
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... activities of scientists, that they think that this is all there is to it. But while science certainly embodies those human ... activity, rather than a process that involves discovery, can be a subtle manifestation of opposition to the ...
... activities of scientists, that they think that this is all there is to it. But while science certainly embodies those human ... activity, rather than a process that involves discovery, can be a subtle manifestation of opposition to the ...
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... activities. Only if the environment is extremely stable will this complicated coupling between organisms and environments be of little importance. Later in this chapter, we shall see that there do exist highly constraining environments ...
... activities. Only if the environment is extremely stable will this complicated coupling between organisms and environments be of little importance. Later in this chapter, we shall see that there do exist highly constraining environments ...
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... activities, able-bodied children never fail to learn to speak. This expertise is achieved without specific instruction. The amount of environmental interaction that they experience is insucient to explain their linguistic proficiency ...
... activities, able-bodied children never fail to learn to speak. This expertise is achieved without specific instruction. The amount of environmental interaction that they experience is insucient to explain their linguistic proficiency ...
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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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