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Penultimate Curiosity

How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-19-883928-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungstermin: 15.06.2019
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When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity.

These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780198839286
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-883928-6
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.06.2019
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 848 g
  • Seiten: 496
  • Format (B x H x T): 170 x 244 x 27 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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- PART I: In the Beginning I- 1: The First Men- 2: Tentasali- 3: Watauinawa- 4: The Garden of Eden Moment- 5: Primate Parallels- 6: Horizons of Curiosity- 7: Ultimate Curiosity- PART II: God Driven Science- 8: The Lions of Miletus- 9: The Move to Athens- 10: Through the Academy Door- PART III: Encounters in Alexandria- 11: Two Students- 12: The Divided City- 13: Industrious Jack- 14: The Creation of the World- PART IV: The Long Argument- 15: The Dream of Aristotle- 16: Al Ghazali's Pilgrimmage- 17: A Tale of Two Cities- 18: Imposed Silence- 19: Experimental Science- 20: The Universal Law- PART V: The Open Book of Heaven- 21: Against Aristotle- 22: Free Philosophising- 23: The Freedom of Intellect- 24: Simplicius Reborn- 25: The Creation- PART VI: Priests of Nature- 26: A New Era- 27: A Lutheran Astrologer- 28: The Experimental Philosophy- 29: The Oxonian Sparkles- PART VII: The Ocean of Truth- 30: Le Grand Newton- 31: The Beautiful System- 32: Mathematical Theologies- 33: The Coast of Infinity- PART VIII: Voyages of Discovery- 34: Two Journeys- 35: The Mystery of Mysteries- 36: The Creed of Science- PART IX: In the Beginning II- 37: The Literary Inquest- 38: Breaking the Seals- 39: The Intellectual Picklock- 40: In a Strange Land- 41: By the waters of Babylon- 42: Adan and Adapa- 43: Ariadne's Thread- PART X: Through the Laboratory Door- 44: Science in a Time of Cholera- 45: A Visit to the Museum- 46: Experiments of Thought- 47: The Unity of Nature- 48: The Works of the Lord- PART XI: Epilogue