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- catalog abstract "In this engaging treatise, science historian Dr. Ernst Peter Fischer puts forth a convincing appeal to both the public and scientists, urging us to reconsider the way we arrive at the truth in science. Encouraging us to approach science with all our senses, Fischer posits a universal aesthetic sense that spurs our imagination and leads it to profound revelations about human and cosmic nature. He delves into the lives of major thinkers and scientists from Bacon to Watson and Crick, pinpointing how they have been guided by their instinct and individual sense of beauty in the pursuit of knowledge. Showing how the aesthetic delights of thought, analysis, research, and discovery are leading components of the scientific mind and process, he examines everything from snowflakes to the overall makeup of the space-time continuum. He explores these concepts and others including the golden mean, evolution, symmetry in nature, as well as imaginary numbers and irrationality as proof of beauty in science. He presents truth as a state of beauty - and beauty as the embodiment of truth. This book will appeal to lay people and scientists alike.".
- catalog alternative "Schöne und das Biest. English".
- catalog contributor b11608704.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Beginning with a Fairy Tale: Beauty and the Beast -- 1. Aesthetic Science: Beautiful Ideas and Elegant Experiments -- 2. All that Beauty Can Be: The Lengthy Consideration of a Simple Concept -- 3. The Irrational Measure of Things: The Long and Short of the Golden Section -- 4. On Illumination of the Soul: How Pleasing Pictures Lead Science to the Truth -- 5. Beauty in Revolution: The Aesthetics of Scientific Progress -- 6. The Distinct Form of Symmetry: A Look in the Mirror and Other Operations -- 7. Perception and Selection: The Origin of Beauty and How It Determines Our Lives -- 8. New Values for Science: An Appeal for the Aesthetic Transformation of Scientific Research -- Epilogue: Ending with a Dream: The Scientist and Beauty.".
- catalog description "In this engaging treatise, science historian Dr. Ernst Peter Fischer puts forth a convincing appeal to both the public and scientists, urging us to reconsider the way we arrive at the truth in science. Encouraging us to approach science with all our senses, Fischer posits a universal aesthetic sense that spurs our imagination and leads it to profound revelations about human and cosmic nature. He delves into the lives of major thinkers and scientists from Bacon to Watson and Crick, pinpointing how they have been guided by their instinct and individual sense of beauty in the pursuit of knowledge.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Showing how the aesthetic delights of thought, analysis, research, and discovery are leading components of the scientific mind and process, he examines everything from snowflakes to the overall makeup of the space-time continuum. He explores these concepts and others including the golden mean, evolution, symmetry in nature, as well as imaginary numbers and irrationality as proof of beauty in science. He presents truth as a state of beauty - and beauty as the embodiment of truth. This book will appeal to lay people and scientists alike.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 202 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0306460114".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Plenum Press,".
- catalog subject "501 21".
- catalog subject "Q172 .F546913 1999".
- catalog subject "Science Aesthetics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Beginning with a Fairy Tale: Beauty and the Beast -- 1. Aesthetic Science: Beautiful Ideas and Elegant Experiments -- 2. All that Beauty Can Be: The Lengthy Consideration of a Simple Concept -- 3. The Irrational Measure of Things: The Long and Short of the Golden Section -- 4. On Illumination of the Soul: How Pleasing Pictures Lead Science to the Truth -- 5. Beauty in Revolution: The Aesthetics of Scientific Progress -- 6. The Distinct Form of Symmetry: A Look in the Mirror and Other Operations -- 7. Perception and Selection: The Origin of Beauty and How It Determines Our Lives -- 8. New Values for Science: An Appeal for the Aesthetic Transformation of Scientific Research -- Epilogue: Ending with a Dream: The Scientist and Beauty.".
- catalog title "Beauty and the beast : the aesthetic moment in science / Ernst Peter Fischer ; translated from German by Elizabeth Oehlkers.".
- catalog title "Schöne und das Biest. English".
- catalog type "text".