From Galileo to Gell-Mann
by Bersanelli, MarcoFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-09-15
Publisher(s): Templeton Foundation Pr
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Summary
Scientists are very often astonished by what the study of nature can reveal and many of the worlds greatest scientists have expressed this astonishment in their books or papers, but very often these reflections are hidden inside thousands of pages. In this handome volume, Bersanelli and Gargantini have collected these expressions of wonder from the most acclaimed scientists of the present and of the past. They also provide commentary and offer context.
Author Biography
Marco Bersanelli is professor of astrophysics at the University of Milan. He has worked as a visiting scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California and is a member of the science team of the Planck Surveyor Space Mission, the European Space Agency project to study the early universe. He is also president of EURESIS, a scientific and cultural association promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on frontier topics in science.
Mario Gargantini is an electronic engineer, a scientific journalist, and the director of Emmeciquadro, a journal on science teaching. He was also a high school physics teacher for twenty years. He has authored several books and essays on science and religion, history of science, and education; he has also been curator of a dozen of scientific exhibitions. In 1987 he won the Glaxo Award and in 1990 he won the Federchimica Award, both for science communication.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Wonder | p. 3 |
| Wonder and Reality | p. 5 |
| Wonder and Beauty | p. 9 |
| Wonder and Contemplation | p. 16 |
| Wonder and Curiosity | p. 21 |
| Wonder and Knowledge | p. 26 |
| Wonder and Joy | p. 31 |
| Wonder and Observation | p. 32 |
| Observation | p. 33 |
| Observation and Affection | p. 36 |
| Observation and Preconception | p. 42 |
| Observation and Realism | p. 49 |
| Observation and Question | p. 53 |
| Observation and Experiment | p. 57 |
| Experiment | p. 61 |
| Experiment and Nature | p. 63 |
| Experiment and Method | p. 70 |
| Experiment and Attention | p. 78 |
| Experiment and Discovery | p. 85 |
| Discovery | p. 89 |
| Discovery and Event | p. 92 |
| Discovery and Innovation | p. 99 |
| Discovery and Imagination | p. 104 |
| Discovery and Intuition | p. 109 |
| Discovery and Company | p. 114 |
| Discovery and the Unforeseen | p. 119 |
| Discovery and Gratitude | p. 127 |
| Discovery and Certainty | p. 130 |
| Certainty | p. 135 |
| Certainty and Reality | p. 138 |
| Certainty and Patience | p. 145 |
| Certainty and Limits | p. 146 |
| Certainty and Impossibility | p. 151 |
| Certainty and Knowability | p. 154 |
| Certainty and Person | p. 158 |
| Certainty and Sign | p. 162 |
| Sign | p. 167 |
| Sign and Knowledge | p. 171 |
| Sign and Chance | p. 181 |
| Sign and Origin | p. 188 |
| Sign and Mystery | p. 195 |
| Sign and Design | p. 199 |
| Sign and Purpose | p. 209 |
| Purpose | p. 211 |
| Purpose and Responsibility | p. 214 |
| Purpose and Harmony | p. 227 |
| Purpose and Religion | p. 234 |
| Purpose and Morality | p. 239 |
| Purpose and Faith | p. 243 |
| Purpose and Praise | p. 248 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 251 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 255 |
| Glossary | p. 289 |
| Notes | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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