The Penultimate Curiosity : How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions Paperback / softback
by Roger (Artist and writer, Artist and writer) Wagner, Andrew (Professor of Nanomaterials, Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK) Briggs
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2019
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- ISBN:9780198839286
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198839286