Immortal Ideas
Shared by Art, Science, and Nature
We live in the greatest scientific age of all time; yet we livein the most innumerate of times. Our science writers need toinspire us with the beauty and power of their art, the same stirringsplendor found in literature and music. We need writerslike Shelley whose description of the mundane water cycle inthe final stanza of The Cloud can rouse a class from somnolence.We need to touch people with the profound beauty commonto art and science. This is my motivation!Today we have journeyed to a distant place far removedfrom C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures where he described howart and science speak mutually incomprehensible languages.Now the world…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9879596-5-2
- EAN: 9780987959652
- Produktnummer: 17443321
- Verlag: Prometheus Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 438 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 630 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 630
Über den Autor
Gordon Harrison is the author of several popular books on nature, science, religion, and art. When he isn't writing, or drinking Glenmorangie single malt scotch whiskey, he's photographing the endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful of the Ontario hinterlands.
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