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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... effect is enhanced by reducing the intensity of colours in the background. Although Masaccio died while still in his early twenties, his systematic construction of a realistic perspective challenged others to create accurate ...
... effect is enhanced by reducing the intensity of colours in the background. Although Masaccio died while still in his early twenties, his systematic construction of a realistic perspective challenged others to create accurate ...
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... effect upon the character of the true reality 'out there'. Even when it makes a big difference, we can often understand enough about the cognitive processes involved to recognize when they are being biased, and make some appropriate ...
... effect upon the character of the true reality 'out there'. Even when it makes a big difference, we can often understand enough about the cognitive processes involved to recognize when they are being biased, and make some appropriate ...
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... effect, emerge. The survivors will be better adapted, on average, than their unsuccessful competitors; but there is no reason why their adaptations should be the best possible when judged by some mathematical standard of structural or ...
... effect, emerge. The survivors will be better adapted, on average, than their unsuccessful competitors; but there is no reason why their adaptations should be the best possible when judged by some mathematical standard of structural or ...
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... effect'), and this can outweigh the inuence of natural selection. To complicate things further, some genetic variations are selectively neutral in the environments in which they arise and so will not be subject to selection. They might ...
... effect'), and this can outweigh the inuence of natural selection. To complicate things further, some genetic variations are selectively neutral in the environments in which they arise and so will not be subject to selection. They might ...
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... understand how key notions, like those of cause and effect, are necessary for successful evolution by natural selection, it is not so easy to see why mental images of elementary particles or black holes should be underwritten in the.
... understand how key notions, like those of cause and effect, are necessary for successful evolution by natural selection, it is not so easy to see why mental images of elementary particles or black holes should be underwritten in the.
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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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