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Elegance in science : the beauty of simplicity
\"Science is often thought of as a methodical but dull activity. But the finest science, the breakthroughs most admired and respected by scientists themselves, is characterized by elegance.\" \"What does elegance mean in the context of science? Economy is a considerable part of it; creativity too. Sometimes, a suggested solution is so simple and neat that it elicits an exclamation of wonder from the observer. The greatest science, whether primarily theoretical or experimental, reflects a creative imagination.\" \"In this book, the distinguished physiologist and writer Ian Glynn explores some of the finest examples of elegance in science: the delightful simplicity of the laws discovered by Kepler and Newton in the motion of the planets; Galileo's experiments with an inclined plane; the remarkable work of Thomas Young on light; dazzling insights into the counterintuitive workings of our perception demonstrated by Richard Gregory and Vilayanur Ramachandran; and the several breakthroughs that led to Crick and Watson's unravelling of the structure and function of DNA. The result is a fascinating tour through some of the most important episodes in the history of science.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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Pathologies of Motion
An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds.
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The aesthetic turn in political thought
\"The growing exploration of political life from an aesthetic perspective has become so prominent that we can now speak of an \"aesthetic turn\" in political theory. But what does it mean and why an aesthetic turn? This collection of essays aims to answer such questions from a variety of perspectives, to think in a new way about the possibilities and weaknesses of democratic politics.The book first outlines the theoretical motivations and historical conditions that led to the turn to aesthetics. Essays then call attention to the presence of aesthetic themes and arguments in political theory as well as to parallels between theories of aesthetics and politics, revealing how much political theory can gain from making use of aesthetic modes of thought. They demonstrate that much of what is essential to democratic politics can in fact only be disclosed through aesthetic theorizing.A significant contribution to the contemporary debate in political theory, The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought will appeal to all students interested in the interdisciplinary crossroads of aesthetic and politics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Aesthetic Science of Rhinoplasty: Three Principles
Aesthetic science is a rapidly growing discipline that involves plastic surgery as much or more than other disciplines of science. Fortunately, how and why the human brain responds to the visual world is better understood now than ever before. Of necessity plastic surgery is a part of that aesthetic science movement because it deals directly with the application of aesthetic principles. Therefore, it behooves the surgeon to be familiar with the principles of aesthetic science so as to both delineate and attain the aesthetic goal at the same time any functional goal is part of the operation. There are three important principles for rhinoplasty: (1) symmetry, (2) continuity and (3) persistence. This study provides examples of how they apply in the preop, intraop and postop phase of performing aesthetic rhinoplasty. A firm understanding of these principles can then guide the surgeon through the difficult maze of decision making, operative planning and surgical execution that arguably makes aesthetic rhinoplasty the most difficult aesthetic operation in plastic surgery. Level of Evidence VThis journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266.
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Beyond the Finite
The explorations within this book range from the images taken by the Hubble Telescope to David Bohm's quantum romanticism, from Kant and Burke to a 'downward spiraling infinity' of the 21st century sublime, all lucid yet transcendent.
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The music instinct : how music works and why we can't do without it
The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and what is still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. --from publisher description
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Beauty in science: a new model of the role of aesthetic evaluations in science
In
Beauty and Revolution in Science
, James McAllister advances a rationalistic picture of science in which scientific progress is explained in terms of
aesthetic
evaluations of scientific theories. Here I present a new model of aesthetic evaluations by revising McAllister’s core idea of the aesthetic induction. I point out that the aesthetic induction suffers from anomalies and theoretical inconsistencies and propose a model free from such problems. The new model is based, on the one hand, on McAllister’s original model and on further developments by Theo Kuipers in his “Beauty, a Road to the Truth?”. On the other hand, it is based on empirical findings about affection and emotion, and a naturalistic aesthetic theory. The new model is thus a naturalistic model with a wider explanatory range and much more internal consistency that McAllister’s.
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