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Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It: Playing Scales - Softcover

Toliver, Harold

 
9781778833304: Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It: Playing Scales

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One of the faults in philosophy generally-even the philosophy of science-is ignoring the extended scale of the natural continuum and putting in its place something Anthropomorphic. This book suggests a means of keeping score that puts common situations, places, topography, and even home ground in the context of that continuum, the whole of atomic matter and its history. As shown here, the discrepancy between normal measurements and what actually exists is similar to that between 'yardsticks' and 'light years'

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Harold Toliver is a retired Professor of English, American, and Comparative Literature at the University of California and author of numerous books in literary history and theory. He has held various positions over the years, from Teaching Assistant to Professor atJohns Hopkins, the University of Washington, Ohio State University, and UCLA. His publications include The Past That Poets Make and Animate Illusions. After retiring, he has turned primarily to interdisciplinary matters that link the humanities to the sciences. That work has concentrated mainly on the extent of the natural continuum and the perspective it gives on various cultural myths and literary traditions.

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