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    The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / Roger Wagner, artist and writer, and Andrew Briggs, professor of nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK.

    By: Wagner, Roger [author.]Contributor(s): Briggs, Andrew [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xxiii, 468 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198747956; 0198747950Subject(s): Religion and science | Curiosity | RELIGION -- General | Curiosity | Religion and science | Religion | Wissenschaft | Wissbegier | Religion and Science | Science -- historyDDC classification: 201.6/5 LOC classification: BL240.3 | .W34 2016Other classification: 201.65
    Contents:
    In the beginning -- God-driven science -- Encounters in Alexandria -- The long argument -- The open book of heaven -- Priests of nature -- The ocean of truth -- Voyages of discovery -- In the beginning II -- Through the laboratory door -- Epilogue.
    Summary: When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. -- Amazon.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-456) and index.

    In the beginning -- God-driven science -- Encounters in Alexandria -- The long argument -- The open book of heaven -- Priests of nature -- The ocean of truth -- Voyages of discovery -- In the beginning II -- Through the laboratory door -- Epilogue.

    When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. -- Amazon.

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