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Catching the Light Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)

Catching the Light By Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)

Catching the Light by Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)

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Summary

This work takes the reader on a tour of the nature and significance, both scientific and cultural, of light in our world. It explores the development of scientific theories surrounding light, and provides a history of the mind in the process.

Catching the Light Summary

Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind by Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)

`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?

Catching the Light 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

About Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)

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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GOR001661075
9780195095753
0195095758
Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind by Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)
Arthur Zajonc (Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute Professor of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19951005
398
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