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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... results of nurture, not nature—and to ignore the universalities of human thinking. Recently, this prejudice has been seriously undermined. Things are far more complicated. The complexities of our minds and bodies witness to a long ...
... results of nurture, not nature—and to ignore the universalities of human thinking. Recently, this prejudice has been seriously undermined. Things are far more complicated. The complexities of our minds and bodies witness to a long ...
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... results. By contrast, the proportion of light reected by the different colours is rather similar and so it is very hard to produce a bright mixture with a narrow colour range; most mixtures just produce a muddy brown. The. mind-benders ...
... results. By contrast, the proportion of light reected by the different colours is rather similar and so it is very hard to produce a bright mixture with a narrow colour range; most mixtures just produce a muddy brown. The. mind-benders ...
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... results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it. Those seeking such motivations for new, unconventional, or abstract forms. 2.7 Edouard ...
... results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it. Those seeking such motivations for new, unconventional, or abstract forms. 2.7 Edouard ...
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... results of selective breeding. It was also becoming clear that many living species had become extinct. Exotic beasts—mammoths and sabretoothed tigers—had left dramatic fossilized remains; by the turn of the nineteenth century, their ...
... results of selective breeding. It was also becoming clear that many living species had become extinct. Exotic beasts—mammoths and sabretoothed tigers—had left dramatic fossilized remains; by the turn of the nineteenth century, their ...
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... result in a gradual change in the species. As a result, new species may, in effect, emerge. The survivors will be better adapted, on average, than their unsuccessful competitors; but there is no reason why their adaptations should be ...
... result in a gradual change in the species. As a result, new species may, in effect, emerge. The survivors will be better adapted, on average, than their unsuccessful competitors; but there is no reason why their adaptations should be ...
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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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