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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... Theories of Everything: The Quest for the Ultimate Explanation, Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits, Between Inner and Outer Space, The Origin of the Universe, The ...
... Theories of Everything: The Quest for the Ultimate Explanation, Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits, Between Inner and Outer Space, The Origin of the Universe, The ...
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... Only the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell, and I said to him: “Well, Lord Russell, what's it all about?” and, do you know, he couldn't tell me.' JOHN NAUGHTON Preface Life, like science and art, is a theory about.
... Only the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell, and I said to him: “Well, Lord Russell, what's it all about?” and, do you know, he couldn't tell me.' JOHN NAUGHTON Preface Life, like science and art, is a theory about.
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John Barrow. Preface. Life, like science and art, is a theory about the world: a theory that in our case takes bodily ... theories are good enough, then life will prosper and multiply; but if they are outmoded by changing conditions, their ...
John Barrow. Preface. Life, like science and art, is a theory about the world: a theory that in our case takes bodily ... theories are good enough, then life will prosper and multiply; but if they are outmoded by changing conditions, their ...
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... world based upon Newton's laws of motion and gravitation. He made important contributions to the subject of astronomy—proposing a theory for the origin of the solar system—and was content with the common view that there was.
... world based upon Newton's laws of motion and gravitation. He made important contributions to the subject of astronomy—proposing a theory for the origin of the solar system—and was content with the common view that there was.
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... theory of knowledge. Kant sees us as observers of the world, who are denied access to the true observer-independent reality—a fact that places each of us firmly at the centre of our own 'little' universe. Let us consider an example ...
... theory of knowledge. Kant sees us as observers of the world, who are denied access to the true observer-independent reality—a fact that places each of us firmly at the centre of our own 'little' universe. Let us consider an example ...
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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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