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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... interesting developments in areas of science and art that were touched upon in the first edition. I have taken the opportunity to extend the original book in many places to take into account these developments. I am particularly ...
... interesting developments in areas of science and art that were touched upon in the first edition. I have taken the opportunity to extend the original book in many places to take into account these developments. I am particularly ...
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... interesting sights and sounds, others are trained observers. They seek out unusual sights, or register events that most of us would never notice. Some, with the help of artificial sensors, delve deeper and range farther than our unaided ...
... interesting sights and sounds, others are trained observers. They seek out unusual sights, or register events that most of us would never notice. Some, with the help of artificial sensors, delve deeper and range farther than our unaided ...
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... interesting human attributes as things that are learned from our contacts with individuals and society—as the results of nurture, not nature—and to ignore the universalities of human thinking. Recently, this prejudice has been seriously ...
... interesting human attributes as things that are learned from our contacts with individuals and society—as the results of nurture, not nature—and to ignore the universalities of human thinking. Recently, this prejudice has been seriously ...
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... interesting inuence upon some cultures, such as Islam and Judaism, was the religious taboo on the artistic representation of living things. This stied at birth any tradition of realistic representation of reality. In Islamic art one ...
... interesting inuence upon some cultures, such as Islam and Judaism, was the religious taboo on the artistic representation of living things. This stied at birth any tradition of realistic representation of reality. In Islamic art one ...
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... interesting about this view is that it allows some tests to be carried out. If the child grows up in a culture where the spoken language is a primitive mixture of pidgin speech, then the initial settings will not get overwritten and ...
... interesting about this view is that it allows some tests to be carried out. If the child grows up in a culture where the spoken language is a primitive mixture of pidgin speech, then the initial settings will not get overwritten and ...
Contenido
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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