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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... importance of symmetry for living things. These insights will shed new light on our responses to modern computergenerated art, and will help us to appreciate what we require of man-made landscapes if they are to soothe or stimulate us ...
... importance of symmetry for living things. These insights will shed new light on our responses to modern computergenerated art, and will help us to appreciate what we require of man-made landscapes if they are to soothe or stimulate us ...
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... important to the realists than line, composition, and perspective, it offered the greatest scope for novelty. Some, like Georges Seurat, invested great effort in the understanding of colour vision and mixing. Seurat's technique of ...
... important to the realists than line, composition, and perspective, it offered the greatest scope for novelty. Some, like Georges Seurat, invested great effort in the understanding of colour vision and mixing. Seurat's technique of ...
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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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... importance. Later in this chapter, we shall see that there do exist highly constraining environments that are not altered by their inhabitants. What is the long-term result of evolution by natural selection? On this question, opinion is ...
... importance. Later in this chapter, we shall see that there do exist highly constraining environments that are not altered by their inhabitants. What is the long-term result of evolution by natural selection? On this question, opinion is ...
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... important things to teach us, not merely about fruit ies and animal habitats, but about Kant's deep questions concerning the relationship between reality and perceived reality. A consideration of the evolutionary process that has ...
... important things to teach us, not merely about fruit ies and animal habitats, but about Kant's deep questions concerning the relationship between reality and perceived reality. A consideration of the evolutionary process that has ...
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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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