真實世界的神奇魔法
魔法以各式形態存在這世上。古埃及人解釋夜晚降臨的原因在於女神努特吞日,而維京人則相信彩虹是眾神來到凡間的通道,然而這都是些神奇非凡的傳說。不過世上還有另一種魔法,存在於發掘上述問題的真正解答所帶來知的喜悅,亦即真實世界的魔法——科學。
《什麼才是真的?》裏頭塞滿了關於太空、時間以及演化等發人深省的科學原理,穿插機智詼諧的笑料與科學實驗,本書將帶領讀者一同探索眾多大自然奇特現象。例如物質是什麼組成的?宇宙存在多久了?是什麼引起海嘯?最早出現的男人及女人又分別是誰?這本引人入勝、發人深省的偵探故事,不僅探究各種科學知識以尋求解答,同時引領讀者以科學家的角度觀察這個神奇的世界。
理查.道金斯以獨特易懂、活潑生動的文字,搭配大衛麥金的插圖,為全年齡的讀者介紹自然世界的種種奇觀,並將啟發教育世世代代無數的讀者。
Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality - science.
Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time and evolution, laced with humour and clever thought experiments, The Magic of Reality explores a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is the universe? What causes tsunamis? Who was the first man, or woman? This is a page-turning, inspirational detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist too.
Richard Dawkins elucidates the wonders of the natural world to all ages with his inimitable clarity and exuberance in a text that will enlighten and inform for generations to come.
理查.道金斯 Richard Dawkins
柯林頓.理察.道金斯(Clinton Richard Dawkins),英國演化生物學家、動物行為學家和科普作家,曾於1995-2008年間擔任牛津大學(University of Oxford)西蒙義公共科學教育講座教授,現任英國人文主義協會副主席。
道金斯以其1976年著作《自私的基因》一書聞名於世,書中道金斯闡述了以基因為核心的演化論思想,將一切生物類比為基因的生存機器,並引入了「迷因」(Meme)此一概念。筆下作品尚有《延伸的表現型》(The Extended Phenotype)、《盲眼鐘錶匠》(The Blind Watchmaker)、《上帝錯覺》(The God Delusion)與《祖先的故事》(The Ancestor's Tale)等多本著作。
作者:理查.道金斯 Richard Dawkins
插圖:大衛.麥金 Dave McKean
版本:First Edition
規格:平裝/Paperback,12.8 x 19.8 x 2 cm,272頁
出版商:Black Swan
出版日期:2012年06月21日
語言:英文
ISBN-13:978-0-552-77805-3
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