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The scientific sublime : popular science unravels the mysteries of the universe /
"The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Isn't science sublime?
- Part One. The Physicists. Richard Feynman : the consensual sublime
- Steven Weinberg : the conjectural sublime
- Lisa Randall : the technological sublime
- Brian Greene : the speculative sublime
- Stephen Hawking : the scientific sublime embodied
- Part Two. The Biologists. Rachel Carson : the ethical sublime
- Stephen Jay Gould's books : the balanced sublime
- Stephen Jay Gould's essays : experiencing the sublime
- Steven Pinker : the polymath sublime
- Richard Dawkins : the mathematical sublime
- E.O. Wilson : the biophilic sublime
- Part Three. Move over, God. Move over, God.