"Beauty in Science and Spirit"
Item Number: 133
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Thoreau is the pivotal figure in Chapter 4, "Beauty: From Theology to Fractals," which traces the transition from mystical to mathematical beauty in American thought.
Thoreau's first books were mainly philosophical and his final journals scientific. Can Thoreau's career be thought of as a metaphor for the transition from a mystical view of nature to the mathematical beauty recently discovered by Mandelbrot in his "Fractal Geometry of Nature?" Thoreau himself said: 'The most distinct and beautiful statement of any truth must take at last the mathematical form.'
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"Consecration and conservation: Walden Pond as a sacred site," Chapter 9, page 109, summarizes Thoreau's contribution to the environmental movement.
An illustrated chapter summary of the book may be found on the author's web page http:// www.MirrorOfNature.org
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