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基本説明
初版邦訳:2003年・みすず書房「適応と進化、遠近法、幼児と風景術、言語の本能、地球外生命と芸術、星座の起源、色覚の源泉、時間間隔の観念と週の起源、天球の音楽、ノイズと音楽など――美的感覚をめぐる進化論的文化人類学ともいうべき本書は、人間の芸術的創造性の宇宙的起源を明らかにする。」
This paperback of the revised edition (OUP, 2005) contains eight new sections covering the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets, fashionable postmodernist rejection of science as uncovering objective reality, growing understanding of key ratios appearing in biological relationships, and studies of the underlying mathematical structure of a Pollock painting.
Full Description
In The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. It looked at some of the unexpected ways in which the structure of the Universe, its laws, its environments, and above all its underlying mathematical structure imprints itself on our thoughts, our aesthetic preferences, and our views about the nature of things. The exploration embraced topics such as perspective; the size of things and the origins of aesthetics; computer art (posing the question: is it art?); and the origins of our susceptibility to music. Life sales of the hardback totalled just over 25,000 copies.
The study of the evolutionary and mathematical underpinnings of our aesthetic sense, and our understanding of the nature and scale of the universe has grown over the past decade, with developments in evolutionary psychology, and in cosmology. This paperback of the revised edition (OUP, 2005) contains eight new sections covering the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets, fashionable postmodernist rejection of science as uncovering objective reality, growing understanding of key ratios appearing in biological relationships, and studies of the underlying mathematical structure of a Pollock painting.
Contents
1. Tales of the unexpected ; 2. The impact of evolution ; 3. Size, life, and landscape ; 4. The heavens and the Earth ; 5. The natural history of noise ; 6. All's well that ends well



