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portada The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.9 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.59 kg.
ISBN13
9780190637774
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The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe

Alan G. Gross (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe - Gross, Alan G.

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Synopsis "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, 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? These authors maintain a tradition initiated by Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith, towering 18th-century figures who adapted the literary sublime first to nature, then to science--though with one crucial difference: religion has been replaced wholly by science. In a final chapter, Gross explores science's attack on religion, an assault that attempts to sweep permanently under the rug two questions science cannot answer: What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of the good life?

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