The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Gleiser, Marcelo

ISBN 10: 0465031714 / ISBN 13: 9780465031719

Editore: Basic Books, 2014

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• Titolo: The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465031714
• ISBN 13: 9780465031719
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all

Informazioni sull?autore

Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He has published numerous popular works, including an essay, Emergent Realities in the Cosmos," which was featured in 2003's Best American Science Writing, and three previous books: The Dancing Universe, The Prophet and the Astronomer, and A Tear at the Edge of Creation.