Double Wonder : the Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics

P. 59-70

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  Codice DOI: 10.1400/270616

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• Nello stesso volume

  • Introduction
  • Tabula gratulatoria
  • Wonder as a Mode of Thought : Aristotle, George Eliot, Marilynne Robinson
  • Meravigliarsi : dall'antichità al Duecento
  • He Who Makes Wonders : God's Mirabilia in the Hebrew Bible between Narrative and Poetry
  • From Marvelous Complexity to the Complexity of the Marvelous
  • Double Wonder : the Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics
  • Mirror of Enigma and Mirror of Magic : a Comparative Study
  • Wonder in the Flesh : Boitani in Santa Barbara MMIX
  • On the Tuscan Apennines : Wonders and Warfare
  • E stupii vedendola, con grande stupore (Ap. 17,6) : noterelle semiserie ed a tratti lamentose in onore di Piero Boitani
  • Towards the stordimento d'animo : Dante from Wonder to Astonishment
  • Aquinas on Recognition
  • The Wondrous Humble Plant of Purgatorio I (vv. 133-136) : Introducing a Lost Meaning of the Second Cantica in Dante's Commedia
  • Boccaccio's Ulysses and the Limits of Heroism
  • Decameron 3.9 and the Wife of Bath's Tale
  • Chaucer and Wonder
  • Wonderment : Apprehending the Arthurian World
  • Vis noua monstra? : Thomas More's Response to New World Travelogues
  • From Admiration to Wonder : A Reading of John Donne's Anniversaries
  • Wonder in Borges : the Final Chapters
  • Some Observations on the Mediterranean Sublime : From C. P. Cavafy to Elena Ferrante
  • Daniel Kehlmann's Tyll Ulenspiegel in Wonderland : His Wondrous Survival in the Time of War and Witchcraft
  • Index of Names