The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

di Roger Wagner (Autore)

Andrew Briggs (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2019

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.

• Autore: Roger Wagner, Andrew Briggs
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 496 p.
• Dimensioni: 239 x 168 mm
• Peso: 894 gr.
• EAN: 9780198839286

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