Author: Richard Anthony ProctorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Our Place Among Infinities
Author: Richard Anthony ProctorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Our Place Among Infinities
Author: ProctorOur place among infinities, essays. To which are added essays on astrology and the Jewish sabbath
Author: Richard Anthony ProctorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Our Place Among Infinities. A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us. To which are Added Essays on the Jewish Sabbath and Astrology
Author: Richard Anthony ProctorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385527503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Going by Contraries
Author: Robert Bernard HassPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The ascendancy of science pushed aside Emerson's view of nature as an analogue for a kind and benevolent deity and led to a spiritual crisis that Robert Frost attempted to address in his work. Hass (English, Edinboro U. of Pennsylvania) argues that this was the central concern of Frost's work throughout his career. Frost consistently argued that poetry must seek to find a consistent rationality that strives towards wisdom and firmly rejected Poe's conception of poetry as mere ornament or the more revolutionary conceptions of the American Modernists. Hass traces Frost's career as one in which he slowly overcame his fear of materialism and was able to restore his religious faith. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Beginning of Infinity
Author: David DeutschPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141969695
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it' Peter Forbes, Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely? In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility. 'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist 'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman
Infinity and Me
Author: Kate HosfordPublisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1467737917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Could infinity be in an ice cream cone? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite.
Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin
Author: Robert FaggenPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A revealing look at Darwin's influence on the American poet Robert Frost
Infinity and Perspective
Author: Karsten HarriesPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.
Man's Place in the Universe
Author: Alfred Russel WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description