The Penultimate Curiosity : How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198747950
ISBN-13
9780198747956
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 25th, 2016
Print length
494 Pages
Weight
1,070 grams
Dimensions
24.90 x 17.70 x 3.00 cms
Ksh 8,200.00
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This book sets out to answer one of the most profound questions about the development of human thought: why it is that throughout the long journey from cave painting to quantum physics what we now refer to as 'science' and 'religion' have been so closely entangled.
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.
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