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Celestial aesthetics: over our heads and/or in our heads

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorTaylor & Francis, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:52:43Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:52:43Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 284-285).
dc.description.abstractLooking 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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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Celestial Aesthetics: Over Our Heads and/or in Our Heads, Theology and Science 9, no. 3 (August 2011): 273-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2011.587663
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2011.587663
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/45062
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectmeteorology
dc.subjectclouds
dc.subjectmathematics
dc.subjectcosmology
dc.subjectaesthetics
dc.subjectcosmic dwarfs
dc.subjecthuman uniqueness
dc.titleCelestial aesthetics: over our heads and/or in our heads
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