The Grand Contraption
The World as Myth, Number, and Chance
The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narrative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate contraptions by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit--and what lies beyond. Intertwining history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the physical sciences, this eminently readable book i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-13053-8
- EAN: 9780691130538
- Produktnummer: 2804137
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 348 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 561 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 561
Über den Autor
David Park is Webster Atwell-Class of 1921 Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of seven previous books, including The Fire within the Eye, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and The How and the Why (both Princeton).
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