MICHELANGELO’S FINGER
Book ID/图书代码： 00970009B33003
English Summary/英文概要： The ability of the human index finger to point is truly unique in the animal world. In "Michaelangelo’s Finger", Raymond Tallis shows just how central this seemingly insignificant difference has been in determining the amazing evolutionary pathway of the human being. In this startlingly original and persuasive book, Raymond Tallis shows that it is easy to underestimate the influence of small things in determining what manner of creatures humans are. He reveals that over time the repeated and multiple effects of the seemingly insignificant can make an enormous difference and argues that the independent movement of the human index finger is one such easily overlooked factor. Indeed, not for nothing is the index finger called ’the forefinger’. It is the one we most naturally deploy when we want to winkle things out of small spaces, but it plays a far more significant role in an action unique to us among primates: pointing. In "Michelangelo’s Finger", Raymond Tallis argues that it is through pointing that the index finger made a significant contribution to hominid development and to the creation of a human world separate to the rest of the natural world. Observing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the hugely familiar and awkward encounter between Michelangelo’s God and Man through their index fingers, Tallis identifies an intuitive indication of the central role of the index finger in making us unique. Just as the reaching index fingers of God and Man are here made central to the creation of our kind, so Tallis believes that the simple act of pointing is central to our extraordinary evolution.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在宇宙天地尚未形成之前，黑暗笼罩着无边无际的空虚混沌，上帝那孕育着生命的灵运行其中，投入其中，施造化之工，展成就之初，使世界确立，使万物齐备。
上帝用七天创造了天地方物。这创造的奇妙与神秘非形之笔墨所能写尽，非诉诸言语所能话透。
《创世纪》是米开朗基罗画在梵蒂冈西斯廷教堂礼拜堂天花板上的壁画，作品场面宏大，人物刻画震撼人心，是米开朗基罗的代表作之一。
米开朗琪罗为罗马西斯廷教堂创作的巨幅天顶画《创世纪》，人物多达300多人，分成中央和左右两侧三个部分。西斯廷教堂天顶画是米开朗基罗在绘画创作方面的最大杰作。它分布在该教堂整个长方形大厅的屋顶。整个屋顶长36.54米，宽13.14米，平面达480。
其中《创造亚当》是整个天顶画中最动人心弦的一幕，这一幕没有直接画上帝塑造亚当，而是画出神圣的火花即将触及亚当这一瞬间：从天飞来的上帝，将手指伸向亚当，正要像接通电源一样将灵魂传递给亚当。这一戏剧性的瞬间，将人与上帝奇妙地并列起来，触发我们的无限敬畏感，这真是前无古人，后无来者。(RY)
Awards/获奖情况："’An amazing book about the human head, I’ve never seen anything like it... A very heady, heady experience... Thrilling’ Lynne Truss, Sunday Times ’Fascinating... A wonderful treasury of stupefying facts, a sort of "Ripley’s Believe It Or Not" compendium... This is a wonderful book.’ Michael Simkins, Mail On Sunday ’The pages burst with an entertaining mixture of intriguing facts and thought-provoking observations.’ Andrew Robinson, New Scientist"
About the Author/作者介绍： Raymond Tallis was Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester until 2006. A poet, novelist and philosopher, he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty ’Brains of Britain’, and in 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of Britain’s leading Public Intellectuals. The Raymond Tallis Reader was published in 2000, Hippocratic Oaths in 2004 and The Kingdom Of Infinite Space in 2008.
Raymond Tallis，诗人，作家和哲学家。曾任曼彻斯特大学教授。
Format:电子手稿
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