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Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
David Orrell
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| #87261 in Books | Yale University Press | 2012-11-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.22 x1.18 x6.34l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 356 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| AGAINST MACHINE AESTHETICS|By Julian|Orrell's 'Truth or Beauty' provides an accessible and concise note on the general history of science, paying close attention to the explicit practice and general tendency of employing a Pythagorean/machine aesthetics in the construction of models, theory and the like. Orrell illustrates the adverse influences of this aesthetic philosophy of||
"Orrell swings from the ancient preoccupation with musical harmony and numerical ratios to Renaissance nature studies, the mechanistic approach and the physical sciences of today. Imperfect as it is, ‘messy’ science, he argues, has a novel bea
In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired—and have sometimes misled—scientists attempting to understand nature.
Orrell shows how the ancient Greeks constructed a concept of the world based on musical harmony; later thinkers replaced this model with a program, based on Newton’s “r...
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