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Science And The Human Spirit

by Alan Lightman
language: english
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January of 2005 ‧
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From the bestselling author of Einstein''s Dreams comes this lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the mysteries of the scientific process and exposes its beauty and intrigue.In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Thoughtful, beautifully written, and wonderfully original, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman''s unique position at the crossroads of science and art.


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Sense Of The Mysterious

Science And The Human Spirit

by Alan Lightman

Property Description
ISBN: 9780375423598
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release Date: January of 2005
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > History and Scientific Methodology
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9780375423598
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman nasceu em Memphis, no Tennessee, e estudou em Princeton e no California Institute of Technology, onde se doutorou em Física Teórica. Investigador nas áreas da Astronomia e da Física desde há duas décadas, ensinou ambas as cadeiras em Harvard e no Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Na ASA estão publicadas as suas obras O Sonho de Einstein, um bestseller mundial, traduzido para trinta línguas, Good Benito e Luz Antiga - Uma Introdução à Cosmologia. Os seus ensaios foram já publicados na The New York Review of Books, no The New Tork Times, na Nature, na The Atlanthic Monthly e na The New Yorker. Vive no Massachusetts e é professor auxiliar de Humanidades no MIT.

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