The penultimate curiosity :
Wagner, Roger
The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / Roger Wagner and Andrew Briggs. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. - xxiii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Index and bibliographical sources present
When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity. (copac)
9780198747956 : (hbk.)
Religion and science.
Religion and science--History.
Religion and science--Social aspects.
201.65
The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / Roger Wagner and Andrew Briggs. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. - xxiii, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Index and bibliographical sources present
When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity. (copac)
9780198747956 : (hbk.)
Religion and science.
Religion and science--History.
Religion and science--Social aspects.
201.65