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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... exist? Why do so many myths and legends have common factors? How are these things inuenced by our experience of time and space, and by the appearance of the heavens? What is the inuence of our characteristic life-span—neither very short ...
... exist? Why do so many myths and legends have common factors? How are these things inuenced by our experience of time and space, and by the appearance of the heavens? What is the inuence of our characteristic life-span—neither very short ...
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... exist an irreducible gap between how the world truly is, and our apprehension of it. We can never know the unexpurgated, untranslated 'things in themselves', only an edited—and possibly distorted—version that has been filtered through ...
... exist an irreducible gap between how the world truly is, and our apprehension of it. We can never know the unexpurgated, untranslated 'things in themselves', only an edited—and possibly distorted—version that has been filtered through ...
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... in the midnineteenth century, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Johann Bolyai, and Nikolai Lobachevskii all discovered that there can exist other, logically consistent geometries that differ from Euclid's conception. These 'non-Euclidean'
... in the midnineteenth century, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Johann Bolyai, and Nikolai Lobachevskii all discovered that there can exist other, logically consistent geometries that differ from Euclid's conception. These 'non-Euclidean'
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... exist, so that there is some correlation between the nature of parents and their offspring. Those variations that contribute to the likelihood of the parents' survival will thus most probably be inherited. It should be stressed that ...
... exist, so that there is some correlation between the nature of parents and their offspring. Those variations that contribute to the likelihood of the parents' survival will thus most probably be inherited. It should be stressed that ...
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... exist different, but equally effective, solutions to the same problem; the fact that one was chosen rather than the other might be due to an 'Adam and Eve effect', or just to an accidental initial choice. Perhaps, for example, there is ...
... exist different, but equally effective, solutions to the same problem; the fact that one was chosen rather than the other might be due to an 'Adam and Eve effect', or just to an accidental initial choice. Perhaps, for example, there 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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