Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind - Brossura

Zajonc, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 0195095758 ISBN 13: 9780195095753

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1995

Riassunto

`This is a most persuasive book on a most important subject. I recommend it highly.'
Saul Bellow

With scholarship and clarity, Arthur Zajonc takes us on an epic journey into scientific history. Yet Catching the Light is not just about science; it is a book of ideas that blends science with literature, religion, philosophy, and morality and tries to answer the question that has mystified humanity from pre-history to the present day: what is light?

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Recensione:

`a multi-levelled history about virtually everything that human beings have thought about light and seeing in the last three thousand years... ...I have not enjoyed a book so much for a long time.Oliver Sacks

`a small gem of a book'James Gleik, Washington Post

L'autore:

Arthur Zajonc is a Fellow of both the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute. As a specialist in quantum physics, he has lectured all over the world and is the recipient of a prestigious 1992 Fulbright scholarship.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0195095758
• ISBN 13: 9780195095753
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 398