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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gross, Alan G. (1936-....)
Titre(s) : The scientific sublime [Texte imprimé] : popular science unravels the mysteries of the universe / Alan G. Gross
Publication : New York, NY : Oxford university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-314 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"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, and wisdom. In The Scientific Sublime,
Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great
popular scientists of our time--Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg,
Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard
Dawkins, and E.O. Wilson--evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions:
How did the universe begin? How did life? How did language?"
Sujet(s) : Sciences et société
Philosophie des sciences
Indice(s) Dewey :
501 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190637774. - ISBN 0190637773 (rel.). - ISBN 9780190637781 (erroné). - ISBN
9780190637798 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190637804 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46721850x
Notice n° :
FRBNF46721850
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
