Celestial aesthetics: over our heads and/or in our heads
Date
2011
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Taylor & Francis, publisher
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Abstract
Looking at the night sky, we may seem cosmic dwarfs, overwhelmed with a sense of otherness, abyss. But humans alone enjoy such celestial awe. We can move to a sense of the beholder's celestial ancestry and ongoing relatedness in "our cosmic habitat." That account joins aesthetics with mathematics, finds dramatic interrelationships gathered under "the anthropic principle," and considers meteorological aesthetics. The wonder is as much this Homo sapiens with mind enough to search the universe. What is out there is inseparably linked with what is down here. We are at home in the universe. The glory is both over our heads and in our heads.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285).
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Subject
meteorology
clouds
mathematics
cosmology
aesthetics
cosmic dwarfs
human uniqueness