The penultimate curiosity: how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions
The curiosity that leads to the search for religious understanding and the curiosity that leads to the search for scientific understanding have common origins in aspects of the human mind that go back as far as the earliest records of human intellectual endeavour. 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…
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- Full title :The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / Roger Wagner and Andrew Briggs.
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The curiosity that leads to the search for religious understanding and the curiosity that leads to the search for scientific understanding have common origins in aspects of the human mind that go back as far as the earliest records of human intellectual endeavour. 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. --Adapted from publisher description.
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- Publication Date:©2016
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:xxiii, 468 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198747956, 0198747950, 9780198839286, 0198839286
- oclc:ocn920450731
- LC Classification:BL240.3
- Dewey Decimal:201.6/5
Table of Contents
In the beginning -- God-driven science -- Encounters in Alexandria -- The long argument -- The open book of heaven -- Priests of nature -- The ocean of truth -- Voyages of discovery -- In the beginning II -- Through the laboratory door -- Epilogue.
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