Physics And Literature

Author : Aura Heydenreich,Klaus Mecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110481259

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Physics and Literature by Aura Heydenreich,Klaus Mecke Pdf

Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions – forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines. The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.

Author : Michael Tondre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941462

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The Physics of Possibility by Michael Tondre Pdf

The Physics of Possibility traces the sensational birth of mathematical physics in Victorian literature, science, and statistics. As scientists took up new breakthroughs in quantification, they showed how all sorts of phenomena—the condition of stars, atoms, molecules, and nerves—could be represented as a set of probabilities through time. Michael Tondre demonstrates how these techniques transformed the British novel. Fictions of development by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and others joined the vogue for alternative possibilities. Their novels not only reflected received pieties of maturation but plotted a wider number of deviations from the norms of reproductive adulthood. By accentuating overlooked elements of form, Tondre reveals the novel’s changing identification with possible worlds through the decades when physics became a science of all things. In contrast to the observation that statistics served to invent normal populations, Tondre brings influential modes of historical thinking to the foreground. His readings reveal an acute fascination with alternative temporalities throughout the period, as novelists depicted the categories of object, action, and setting in new probabilistic forms. Privileging fiction’s agency in reimagining historical realities, never simply sanctioning them, Tondre revises our understanding of the novel and its ties to the ascendant Victorian sciences.

Author : Hilary Thayer Hamann,Emiliano Sefusatti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000058229989

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Categories--on the Beauty of Physics by Hilary Thayer Hamann,Emiliano Sefusatti Pdf

CategoriesOn the Beauty of Physics is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary educational book that uses art, and information from a variety of disciplines to facilitate the reader'ss encounter with challenging material. It promotes scientific literacy, fosters an appreciation of the humanities, and encourages informed and imaginative connections between the sciences and the arts. Categories is a cooperative learning tool through which people (especially educators and students) can engage in academic and value-oriented discussions.

Author : Aura Heydenreich,Klaus Mecke
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110479575

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Physics and Literature by Aura Heydenreich,Klaus Mecke Pdf

Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists and literary scholars, the first book to explore together the relations between both fields in depth. Contributors analyze central aspects of literary and scientific thought and representation, and the forms of exchange between them. They clarify how narrative, fiction, metaphor and language interact with models, experiment, measurement and mathematics, across eras and genres.

Author : Robert H. Whitford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:249778839

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Physics Literature by Robert H. Whitford Pdf

Author : Sarah C. Alexander
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981886

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Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable by Sarah C. Alexander Pdf

The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spaces between the material and immaterial. This book examines how the emerging language of the “imponderable” helped Victorian writers and physicists make sense of new experiences of modernity. As Sarah Alexander argues, while Victorian physicists were theorizing ether, energy and entropy, and non-Euclidean space and atom theories, writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad used concepts of the imponderable to explore key issues of capitalism, imperialism, and social unrest.

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141919638

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The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin Pdf

The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman’s overview of current research as we attempt to build a ‘theory of everything’, but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. In doing so, he describes some of the daring, outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come.

Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754658503

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Reading Popular Physics by Elizabeth Leane Pdf

Elizabeth Leane's Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. Focusing particularly on five bestselling books-A Brief History of Time, The First Three Minutes, Chaos, Complexity, and The Dancing Wu Li Masters-Leane analyzes the textual strategies by which popularizers of science influence the public. Her book offers readers a fresh perspective on this highly visible and influential genre.

Author : Larry Brooks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599636955

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Story Physics by Larry Brooks Pdf

Learn how to make your story soar! In the physical world, gravity, force, and other elements of physics govern your abilities and can be utilized to enhance your every movement. In the world of writing, story physics can be harnessed in much the same way to make your novel or screenplay the best it can be. In Story Physics, best-selling author Larry Brooks introduces you to six key literary forces that, when leveraged in just the right way, enable you to craft a story that's primed for success--and publication. Inside Story Physics, you'll learn how to: • Understand and harness the six storytelling forces that are constantly at work in your fiction. • Transform your story idea into a dramatically compelling concept. • Optimize the choices you make in terms of character, conflict, subplot, subtext, and more to render the best possible outcome. These literary forces will elevate your story above the competition and help you avoid the rejection pile. With Story Physics, you won't just give your story wings--you'll teach it how to fly. "Larry Brooks speaks my kind of language about story. Any writer, even those trucking in the world of nonfiction, will benefit from going deeper into the physics of storytelling as Brooks explains in these pages." - James Scott Bell, best-selling author of Plot & Structure "Larry Brooks has done it again! If you liked Story Engineering, I suspect you're going to love Story Physics, which dives even deeper into the essence of story. Story Physics is an essential addition to every novelist's bookshelf." - Randy Ingermanson, author of Writing Fiction for Dummies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Physics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027862635

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International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert H. Whitford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758141734

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Physics Literature by Robert H. Whitford Pdf

Author : Rachel Crossland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198815976

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Modernist Physics by Rachel Crossland Pdf

Modernist Physics' studies literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context to provide an original account of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence engaged with the scientific theories, especially those of Albert Einstein.

Author : Nathan Grier Parke (III.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014720631

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Guide to the Literature of Mathematics and Physics by Nathan Grier Parke (III.) Pdf

Author : Robert H Whitford
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355726344

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Physics Literature a Reference Manual by Robert H Whitford Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Paul J. Nahin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387985719

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Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin Pdf

This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.