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" The scientific sublime : "
Alan G. Gross.
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BL
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873254
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Gross, Alan G.
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The scientific sublime : : popular science unravels the mysteries of the universe /\ Alan G. Gross.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY, United States of America :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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viii, 314 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0190637773
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: 9780190637774
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9780190637781
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9780190637798
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9780190637804
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-310) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"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?"--
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Science-- Social aspects.
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08.35 philosophy of science.
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Biologe
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Naturwissenschaften
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Physiker
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Popularisierung
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SCIENCE / History.
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Science-- Social aspects.
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501
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Q175.5.G7568 2018
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