9780691130538 - the grand contraption: the world as myth, number, and chance de park, david allen (33 resultados)
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Trade Paperback. Condición: New. Reprint. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Reprint, stated first paperback edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, 331 pp including index. Finalist of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards. "Here physicist David Park, the author of The Fire Within the Eye, takes us on a 4,000-year journey…to illuminate the multitude of elaborate metaphysical "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit and what lies beyond. "There is no practical way, of course, to pack all human understanding into a single volume, and Park doesn't try. Instead, he traces our evolving lines of reasoning, at least those emerging in the Western world, from early myth through the emergence of modern philosophy to the establishment of scientific method. From person to person, period to period, Park threads together how myths were jettisoned for fact, how fact turned out to be more fabulous than myth." San Diego Union-Tribune "Bring Homer and Einstein, Aristotle and Columbus into one timeless room (with translators), and their conversation would likely turn to the themes of this astonishingly capacious history of cosmology: How do the stars and planets, the moon and the earth fit together? What is the human place in the grand scheme? Moving adroitly from the earliest biblical and Akkadian accounts of creation to the very latest scientific investigations of the dark energy that will finally pull the galaxies apart, Park weaves together the fascinating story of human efforts to fathom the universe. Joining, by turns, the voices of religious mystics, materialist philosophers, and quantum physicists, the story entails radical shifts in human perspective as philosophy replaces mythology and then science replaces philosophy. With lucid economy, Park chronicles the dramatic revolutions in cultural exchange and in technology that accelerated new thinking. Readers see, for instance, how thirteenth-century Franciscan emissaries to the Great Kahn hastened the exploration of the earth and how eighteenth-century telescopes allowed astronomers to start mapping the Milky Way. But for all the dramatic changes, Park limns remarkable continuities: Newton interprets his epoch-making discoveries by referring to revelations received by biblical patriarchs; twentieth-century environmentalists revive primal Earth Mother myths; pioneering astronomers revisit ancient Greek speculations about life on other planets. An exhilarating intellectual adventure." Booklist (starred review)" A new book.
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Editorial: Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2007. Reprint., 2007
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Paperback. Condición: New. The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narr…ative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit--and what lies beyond. Intertwining history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the physical sciences, this eminently readable book is, ultimately, about the "grand contraption" we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understand and identify with the universe. According to Park, people long ago conceived of our world as a great rock slab inhabited by gods, devils, and people and crowned by stars. Thinkers imagined ether to fill the empty space, and in the comforting certainty of celestial movement they discerned numbers, and in numbers, order.Separate sections of the book tell the fascinating stories of measuring and mapping the Earth and Heavens, and later, the scientific exploration of the universe. The journey reveals many common threads stretching from ancient Mesopotamians and Greeks to peoples of today. For example, humans have tended to imagine Earth and Sky as living creatures. Not true, say science-savvy moderns. But truth isn't always the point. The point, says Park, is that Earth is indeed the fragile bubble we surmise, and we must treat it with the reverence it deserves.
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Condición: New. Tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. This book is about the 'grand contraption' we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understan…d and identify with the universe. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. 41 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514. . 2007. Paperback. . . . .
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Condición: New. Tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. This book is about the 'grand contraption' we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understan…d and identify with the universe. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. 41 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Paperback. Condición: New. The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narr…ative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit--and what lies beyond. Intertwining history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the physical sciences, this eminently readable book is, ultimately, about the "grand contraption" we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understand and identify with the universe. According to Park, people long ago conceived of our world as a great rock slab inhabited by gods, devils, and people and crowned by stars. Thinkers imagined ether to fill the empty space, and in the comforting certainty of celestial movement they discerned numbers, and in numbers, order.Separate sections of the book tell the fascinating stories of measuring and mapping the Earth and Heavens, and later, the scientific exploration of the universe. The journey reveals many common threads stretching from ancient Mesopotamians and Greeks to peoples of today. For example, humans have tended to imagine Earth and Sky as living creatures. Not true, say science-savvy moderns. But truth isn't always the point. The point, says Park, is that Earth is indeed the fragile bubble we surmise, and we must treat it with the reverence it deserves.
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Condición: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Tells the story of humanity s attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. This b…ook is about the grand contraption we .
