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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... Space, The Origin of the Universe, The Universe that Discovered Itself, The Book of Nothing, The Constants of Nature: from alpha to omega, The Innite Book: a short guide to the boundless, timeless and endless, Cosmic Imagery, 100 Things ...
... Space, The Origin of the Universe, The Universe that Discovered Itself, The Book of Nothing, The Constants of Nature: from alpha to omega, The Innite Book: a short guide to the boundless, timeless and endless, Cosmic Imagery, 100 Things ...
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... space The inheritors: adaptation and evolution After Babel: a linguistic digression A sense of reality: the evolution of mental pictures Gravity's rainbow: the fabric of the world Chronicle of a death foretold: of death and immortality ...
... space The inheritors: adaptation and evolution After Babel: a linguistic digression A sense of reality: the evolution of mental pictures Gravity's rainbow: the fabric of the world Chronicle of a death foretold: of death and immortality ...
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... space The man who was Thursday: the origins of the week Outward bound: the way of the world Study in scarlet: the sources of colour vision Long day's journey into night: the origin of the constellations 5. The natural history of noise ...
... space The man who was Thursday: the origins of the week Outward bound: the way of the world Study in scarlet: the sources of colour vision Long day's journey into night: the origin of the constellations 5. The natural history of noise ...
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... space, and by the appearance of the heavens? What is the inuence of our characteristic life-span—neither very short, nor very long—upon our thinking about the world, and the value we place upon life? How does the structure of our minds ...
... space, and by the appearance of the heavens? What is the inuence of our characteristic life-span—neither very short, nor very long—upon our thinking about the world, and the value we place upon life? How does the structure of our minds ...
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... space. Piero della Francesca drew his inspiration from Filippo Brunelleschi's studies in architectural perspective and Masaccio's work; he perfected the artistic organization of space by combining lines parallel to the sides of the ...
... space. Piero della Francesca drew his inspiration from Filippo Brunelleschi's studies in architectural perspective and Masaccio's work; he perfected the artistic organization of space by combining lines parallel to the sides of the ...
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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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