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Lifting Titan's Veil is a revealing account of the second

largest moon in our solar system. This world in orbit around Saturn

is like a giant frozen laboratory that may help scientists

understand the first chemical steps towards the origin of life. The

authors describe our current knowledge of Titan, from its discovery

in 1655, up to the present day. Ralph Lorenz includes his personal

experiences in preparing for the Cassini mission, which will reach

Saturn in 2004 and release the Huygens probe into Titan's

atmosphere in 2005.

Preface

1. Discovering Titan

2. Seeing Titan

3. Titan's puzzling atmosphere

4. Murky meteorology

5. Titan's landscape

6. The Cassini-Huygens mission

7. The shape of things to come

Appendix. Titan - physical and dynamical data

Bibliography.

Ralph Lorenz trained as an engineer and worked for the European

Space Agency at the very beginning of the Huygens project. Since

obtaining a PhD at the University of Kent, England, he has worked

as a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, USA.

Jacqueline Mitton obtained a PhD in astrophysics from the

University of Cambridge, and is now a full-time writer and media

consultant specialising in astronomy.

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自由艺术之所以被称为“自由的”，因为它们是那些掌握了数学和语言的自由人应用的艺术。这种艺术具体是指语法、术和修辞等用词艺术以及算术、几何、天文学和音乐等数学艺术。绘画、雕刻等则属于“机械艺术”，因为它们需要手工操作和技艺。

我们的整个教育系统仍然建立在对词语和数字的研究上。只有在幼几园中儿童们的学习才是通过观看和制造某些美的形状进行的。

艺术之所以受到忽视，是因为它的基础被认为是感知；感知之所以受到鄙薄，则是因为它在一般人的心目中与思维是两回事。

因此，只有当那些教育家们和学校的管理者们懂得，艺术是增加感知能力的最吸有力的手段，没有这种感知力，任何一个研究领城的创造性思维都不可能，他们才不会拒绝把艺术课列为重点课程。

这种对感觉之不可知性的强调，促使诡辩学者提出一哲学怀疑主义。但与此同时，又产生了一种认为物理世界是同一的，其中一切事物均由相同的自然规律和秩序支配的观点。按照这一观点，尘世世界的混乱和多变，应归之于各种错误的和主观解释。

德谟克利特：可怜的理智，你从我们这儿得到证据，后就想抛弃我们，要知道，我们被抛弃之时就是你垮台之日。

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"Lorenz and Milton have done us all a service by writing a book

that stimulates the public's interest and refreshes scientists'

memories before Cassini and Huygens deliver their floods of data

and revolutionize our understanding of Titan forever." EOS

"...lively and captivating... I recommend Lifting Titan's Veil to

anyone having an interest in planetary exploration." Science

"...accessible to a wide audience...even the professional scientist

who wants a brief overview on Titan or an abbreviated history of

the Cassini-Huygens mission will find the book worthwhile. I

recommend Lifting Titan's Veil to anyone having an interest in

planetary exploration." Science

"Lifting Titan's Veil is a fascinating and well-written book which

will pique the interest of many readers..." TPO