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Einstein's Space and Van Gogh's Sky: Physical Reality and Beyond (edition 1983)

by Lawrence Leshan (Author), Henry Margenau (Afterword)

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Lawrence LeShan and Henry Margenau argue that Western culture's precise and literal systems to explain reality were developed to accommodate the human need to control the environment, but that explainations fall short because they do not include non-physical.
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Title:Einstein's Space and Van Gogh's Sky: Physical Reality and Beyond
Authors:Lawrence Leshan (Author)
Other authors:Henry Margenau (Afterword)
Info:Macmillan Pub Co (1983), Edition: 1st Collier books ed, Paperback, 268 pages
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An exploration of the meanings of "reality" in sciences, social sciences, the arts by a physicist and a psychologist.
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