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Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind

Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind

by Arthur Zajonc (Author)

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    Illustrated 1995

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    Hardcover 1993

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Synopsis

`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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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published: 20 Apr 1995
ISBN 10: 0195095758
ISBN 13: 9780195095753

Media Reviews
`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
Author Bio
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.