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Alan G. Gross

The Scientific Sublime

Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe

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The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom.In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our time--Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and E. O. Wilson--evoke the sublime in response to fundament… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-063778-1
  • EAN: 9780190637781
  • Produktnummer: 29056211
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 248 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 25'914 KB

Über den Autor


Alan G. Gross is a Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar. His specialty is scientific communication. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Science and co-author of Communicating Science, The Scientific Literature, The Craft of Scientific Communication, Science from Sight to Insight, and The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities.

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