Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilc…
"Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wil…
"Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wil…
A respected physicist presents a survey of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present, that explore how intertwined ideas about beauty and art are with scientific understandings of the cosmos.
-- A Beautiful Question is amind-shifting book that braids the age-old questfor beauty and the age-old quest for truth into athrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and importantwork from one of our best thinkers, whose humorand infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: …
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilc…
Compendio de referencias musicales que reflexiona sobre los efectos de la música en su relación con el mito, el ocultismo y el arte. El autor, a la manera de un historiador de la cultura, cita ejemplos procedentes de épocas y tradiciones muy variadas: Grecia, la tradición cristi…
by Vauclair, Sylvie, Lévine, Claude-Samuel
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"A profound exploration of the simple numerical ratios that underlie our solar system, its musical harmony, and our earliest religious beliefs"--
"A profound exploration of the simple numerical ratios that underlie our solar system, its musical harmony, and our earliest religious beliefs"--
Est-ce l'harmonie des Sirènes dans le mythe d'Er qui s'inspire d'une doctrine remontant au pythagorisme ancien ou, inversement, est-ce la doctrine énigmatique rapportée par Jamblique et définissant l'harmonie des Sirènes comme étant la tétractys et l'oracle de Delphes, qui puise…
