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Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century Book
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Extraordinary advances in science in the twentieth century profoundly changed the way we perceive the world. New discoveries restored mystery to the universe, revealing a system of symmetry and chaos.
In this book, world-renowned astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan reignites the excitement of these discoveries while considering their philosophical and theological implications. He describes the process through which constraining and sterile determinism was challenged, transformed, and swept aside by contingency, which took a prominent place in fields as diverse as cosmology, astrophysics, geology, biology, and genetics. He traces the view of reality as dependent not only on natural laws, but also on a series of historical and contingent events.
Originally published in France where it became a bestseller, this is the first paperback English-language edition.
- 1932031979
- 9781932031973
- Trinh Xuan Thuan
- 30 June 2006
- Templeton Foundation Press (Div. of John Templeton
- Paperback (Book)
- 384
- New edition
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