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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... living things have invested in particular expectations about the future course of their environments. If those theories are good enough, then life will prosper and multiply; but if they are outmoded by changing conditions, their ...
... living things have invested in particular expectations about the future course of their environments. If those theories are good enough, then life will prosper and multiply; but if they are outmoded by changing conditions, their ...
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... living things; and how the stars and the sky, overlain by our interpretations of them, have inuenced our concepts of time and determinism. These investigations will take us on down unexpected byways to consider how our past environment ...
... living things; and how the stars and the sky, overlain by our interpretations of them, have inuenced our concepts of time and determinism. These investigations will take us on down unexpected byways to consider how our past environment ...
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... things differently. We want to explore some of the ways in which our common experience of living in the Universe rubs off on us. It has become fashionable since the 1960s to regard all interesting human attributes as things that are ...
... things differently. We want to explore some of the ways in which our common experience of living in the Universe rubs off on us. It has become fashionable since the 1960s to regard all interesting human attributes as things that are ...
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... things about any form of living intelligence—wherever it might be in the Universe. To unravel all these strands is ... things. In some instances, those cosmic inuences will fix the environments of living things in inevitable ways; in ...
... things about any form of living intelligence—wherever it might be in the Universe. To unravel all these strands is ... things. In some instances, those cosmic inuences will fix the environments of living things in inevitable ways; in ...
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... things radically altered. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that a certain degree of irrationality may be more ... living things evolve and adapt to their environments. We are accustomed to think of environments as local and ...
... things radically altered. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that a certain degree of irrationality may be more ... living things evolve and adapt to their environments. We are accustomed to think of environments as local and ...
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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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