Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak of "revolutions" in their thinking and extol certain theories for their "beauty"?...
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How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak of "revolutions" in their thinking and extol certain theories for their "beauty"? James W. McAllister addresses this question with the first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.
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Two challenges to rationalism
Abstract entities and aesthetic evaluations
The aesthetic properties of scientific theories
Two erroneous views of scientist's aesthetic judgments
The inductive construction of aesthetic preference
The relation of beauty to truth
A study of simplicity
Revolution as aesthetic rupture
Induction and revolution in the applied arts
Circles and ellipses in astronomy
Continuity and revolution in twentieth-century physics