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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... in all its forms should draw them towards the creative arts where there are extraordinary examples of structured intricacy. This book is an attempt to look with a scientist's eye at a few things that are usually kept.
... in all its forms should draw them towards the creative arts where there are extraordinary examples of structured intricacy. This book is an attempt to look with a scientist's eye at a few things that are usually kept.
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... examples of organized complexity, whilst offering, in return, a new perspective on the sources of our senses, our tastes, and the sights and sounds that surround them. Many people have helped this project, directly or indirectly ...
... examples of organized complexity, whilst offering, in return, a new perspective on the sources of our senses, our tastes, and the sights and sounds that surround them. Many people have helped this project, directly or indirectly ...
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... Kant sees us as observers of the world, who are denied access to the true observer-independent reality—a fact that places each of us firmly at the centre of our own 'little' universe. Let us consider an example where our minds are torn.
... Kant sees us as observers of the world, who are denied access to the true observer-independent reality—a fact that places each of us firmly at the centre of our own 'little' universe. Let us consider an example where our minds are torn.
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John Barrow. Let us consider an example where our minds are torn between two possibilities by the problem of perspective. It was discovered by a Swiss crystallographer, Louis Albert Necker, in 1832. If we stare at the cubes in Figure 2.4 ...
John Barrow. Let us consider an example where our minds are torn between two possibilities by the problem of perspective. It was discovered by a Swiss crystallographer, Louis Albert Necker, in 1832. If we stare at the cubes in Figure 2.4 ...
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... example of this dynamic art-form is shown in Figure 2.5. It illustrates the impact of our mental categories upon perception: the lines on the page don't move whatever your eyes tell you. 2.4 The Necker cube, with all lines solid, is ...
... example of this dynamic art-form is shown in Figure 2.5. It illustrates the impact of our mental categories upon perception: the lines on the page don't move whatever your eyes tell you. 2.4 The Necker cube, with all lines solid, is ...
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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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