Kniha Open Fields Gillian Beer

Open Fields

Science in Cultural Encounter

Autor: Gillian Beer
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Dostupnosť: 50 % šanca
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Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays exp...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
1999
Stránok
352
EAN
9780198186359
ISBN
0198186355
Enbook ID
04522753
Hmotnosť
448
Rozmery
139 x 218 x 17

Kompletný popis

Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of essays centres on Darwin and the incentives of his thinking from language theory to his encounters with Fuegians. Other essays include Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism, and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.

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