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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... seen. They display the crowning successes of the objective and subjective views of the world. But while they spring from a shared source—the careful observation of things—they evoke different theories about the world: what it means ...
... seen. They display the crowning successes of the objective and subjective views of the world. But while they spring from a shared source—the careful observation of things—they evoke different theories about the world: what it means ...
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... seen to hinge upon a number of extraordinary coincidences about our environment and our view of the sky. In the absence of those fortuitous circumstances, our understanding of the world would be greatly diminished, and our beliefs about ...
... seen to hinge upon a number of extraordinary coincidences about our environment and our view of the sky. In the absence of those fortuitous circumstances, our understanding of the world would be greatly diminished, and our beliefs about ...
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... seen, we move to the things that are seen. The appearance of the night sky is a universal experience. Some of its inuences are direct and unnoticed; others are conjured up by our own imaginations. These nocturnal imaginings depend, in ...
... seen, we move to the things that are seen. The appearance of the night sky is a universal experience. Some of its inuences are direct and unnoticed; others are conjured up by our own imaginations. These nocturnal imaginings depend, in ...
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... seen in the spontaneity required of the artist. In the West, the development of oil-based paints allowed the artist to evolve and revise his work over a long period of time. He was no longer captive to the irrevocable nature of the ...
... seen in the spontaneity required of the artist. In the West, the development of oil-based paints allowed the artist to evolve and revise his work over a long period of time. He was no longer captive to the irrevocable nature of the ...
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... seen were the first spontaneous images. An 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 ...
... seen were the first spontaneous images. An 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 ...
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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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