Anglický jazyk

Immortal Ideas

Vydavateľstvo: Prometheus Publications
Rok vydania: 2014
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780987959652

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O knihe

We live in the greatest scientific age of all time; yet we live
in the most innumerate of times. Our science writers need to
inspire us with the beauty and power of their art, the same stirring
splendor found in literature and music. We need writers
like Shelley whose description of the mundane water cycle in
the final stanza of "The Cloud" can rouse a class from somnolence.
We need to touch people with the profound beauty common
to art and science. This is my motivation!
Today we have journeyed to a distant place far removed
from C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures where he described how
art and science speak mutually incomprehensible languages.
Now the world is even more fractured - we need to be healed.
Each chapter is built around a single idea that's common to
art, science, and, nature. The last chapter is a summary of the
previous nine. Although this book is nonfiction, sections of
each chapter and the climax are developed by two semihistorical
characters: one from the Iliad, the other from the
Odyssey - the two blessed men of Odysseus. The older is
Epius the engineer/scientist who with the sanction of Odysseus
built the Trojan horse and ended the war. The younger is
Phemius the poet/minstrel compelled to entertain the suitors in
Odysseus' absence. On his return the hero slew the suitors but
spared and blessed Phemius as a man inspired by god. Both
scientist and poet have been alive for three millennia, interacting
with history's great ideas through famous men and women.