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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... images so attractive to the human eye? How have the concepts of chance and randomness inuenced our religious and ethical thinking? What are the sources of fatalism and our views about the end of the world? If we were to make contact ...
... images so attractive to the human eye? How have the concepts of chance and randomness inuenced our religious and ethical thinking? What are the sources of fatalism and our views about the end of the world? If we were to make contact ...
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... images in permanent form, so that we can savour and re-experience the fruits of our imagination. But the creative arts are not the only manifestations of the imaginative urge. Science is another quest to make images of the world. It has ...
... images in permanent form, so that we can savour and re-experience the fruits of our imagination. But the creative arts are not the only manifestations of the imaginative urge. Science is another quest to make images of the world. It has ...
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... images of the world. In so doing, they have often taken too little heed of why we have a view of the world, and from whence it came. Our minds have not fallen ready-made from the sky. They have a history that weds them to the nature of ...
... images of the world. In so doing, they have often taken too little heed of why we have a view of the world, and from whence it came. Our minds have not fallen ready-made from the sky. They have a history that weds them to the nature of ...
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... sides of the picture with lines directed towards the vanishing-point. The viewer feels that he is looking in upon the world through an open window (Plate 3). 2.1 An absence of perspective characterizes images made by young.
... sides of the picture with lines directed towards the vanishing-point. The viewer feels that he is looking in upon the world through an open window (Plate 3). 2.1 An absence of perspective characterizes images made by young.
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John Barrow. 2.1 An absence of perspective characterizes images made by young children. This picture is by Danny Palmer, age 9. more Renaissance artists developed the geometrical intuitions that are required to create a three-dimensional ...
John Barrow. 2.1 An absence of perspective characterizes images made by young children. This picture is by Danny Palmer, age 9. more Renaissance artists developed the geometrical intuitions that are required to create a three-dimensional ...
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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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