The simple beauty of the unexpected
a natural philosopher's quest for trout and the meaning of everything
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Word Count
46,500 words, Guess
Page Count
186 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesimplebeautyofun0000glei
- ISBN-101611684412
- ISBN-139781611684414
- Library of Congress Control Number2015044474
- OCLC Control Number923650770
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781611684414
- Open LibraryOL27213306M
Classifications
- DDC799.12/4
- LCCSH456 .G635 2016
- LCCSH456.G635 2016
Description
Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to connect with nature in less theoretical ways. After seeing a fly-fishing class on the Dartmouth College green, he decided to learn to fly-fish, a hobby, he says, that teaches humility. In The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Gleiser travels the world to scientific conferences, fishing wherever he goes. At each stop, he ponders how in the myriad ways physics informs the act of fishing; how, in its turn, fishing serves as a lens into natures inner workings; and how science engages with questions of meaning and spirituality, inspiring a sense of mystery and awe of the not yet known.--
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